Common dependence on stress for the two fundamental laws of statistical seismology

Nature

Volumn 462, Issue 7273, 2009, Pages 642-645

  Narteau, Clément ^a   Byrdina, Svetlana ^a,b   Shebalin, Peter ^a,c   Schorlemmer, Danijel ^d  

^a INSTITUT DE PHYSIQUE DU GLOBE DE PARIS   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c INSTITUTE OF EARTHQUAKE PREDICTION THEORY AND MATHEMATICAL GEOPHYSICS   (Russian Federation)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFTERSHOCK; ESTIMATION METHOD; FAULTING; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; POWER LAW; SEISMOLOGY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STRESS FIELD;

ARTICLE; EARTHQUAKE; GEOLOGY; JAPAN; LAW; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEISMOLOGY; TIME; UNITED STATES;

EID: 71449099314     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature08553     Document Type: Article

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