Modeling seismic swarms triggered by aseismic transients

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 281, Issue 1-2, 2009, Pages 59-69

  Llenos, Andrea L ^a   McGuire, Jeffrey J ^b   Ogata, Yosihiko ^c  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

^c INSTITUTE OF STATISTICAL MATHEMATICS   (Japan)

Author keywords

aseismic deformation; earthquake swarms; ETAS model; rate state model; triggering

Indexed keywords

ASEISMIC DEFORMATION; EARTHQUAKE SWARMS; ETAS MODEL; RATE-STATE MODEL; TRIGGERING;

CREEP; EARTHQUAKES; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; TRANSIENTS;

STOCHASTIC MODELS;

AFTERSHOCK; DEFORMATION; EARTHQUAKE CATALOGUE; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; EARTHQUAKE SWARM; EARTHQUAKE TRIGGER; FLUID FLOW; MODELING; SEISMICITY;

EID: 63449139203     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2009.02.011     Document Type: Article

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