Linear and nonlinear relations between relative plate velocity and seismicity

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 99, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 3099-3113

  Bird, P ^a   Kagan, Y Y ^a   Jackson, D D ^a   Schoenberg, F P ^a   Werner, M J ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFTER SHOCKS; CONTINENTAL RIFT; CONTINENTAL TRANSFORM; LINEAR RELATIONSHIPS; LOWER STRESS; NON-LINEARITY; NONLINEAR RELATIONS; NULL HYPOTHESIS; OCEANIC TRANSFORM; PLATE VELOCITY; SEISMIC MOMENT; SHALLOW EARTHQUAKES; SPREADING RIDGE; STOCHASTIC SIMULATIONS; SUBDUCTION EARTHQUAKES; SUBDUCTION ZONES; TEM; VELOCITY DEPENDENCE;

MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; OCEANOGRAPHY; SIMULATORS; VELOCITY;

EARTHQUAKES;

AFTERSHOCK; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; EARTHQUAKE MECHANISM; EARTHQUAKE SWARM; FORESHOCK; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; LINEARITY; NONLINEARITY; NUMERICAL MODEL; PLATE BOUNDARY; PORE PRESSURE; PROBABILITY; SAMPLING BIAS; SEISMIC MOMENT; SEISMICITY; STOCHASTICITY; SUBDUCTION ZONE; THRUST FAULT;

EID: 70450211324     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120090082     Document Type: Article

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