On mainshock focal mechanisms and the spatial distribution of aftershocks

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 99, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 3402-3412

  Wong, Ka ^a   Schoenberg, Frederic Paik ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFTERSHOCK LOCATION; CONCENTRATION OF; DIAGNOSTIC MEASURES; EARTHQUAKE DATA; FAULT PLANES; FOCAL MECHANISM; JOINT DISTRIBUTIONS; K-FUNCTION; MAINSHOCK; MOMENT TENSORS; PARAMETERIZED; RESIDUAL ANALYSIS; SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SPATIAL KERNELS; SQUARED COSINES; STRIKE-SLIP EARTHQUAKES; STRIKE-SLIP EVENTS;

AIRCRAFT ACCIDENTS; EARTHQUAKE EFFECTS; LOCATION; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; TENSORS;

NORMAL DISTRIBUTION;

AFTERSHOCK; EARTHQUAKE CATALOGUE; FAULT PLANE; FOCAL MECHANISM; FORECASTING METHOD; MOMENT TENSOR; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 70450219415     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120080371     Document Type: Article

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