Short-term properties of earthquake catalogs and models of earthquake source

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 94, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 1207-1228

  Kagan, Yan Y ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; RANDOM PROCESSES; SEISMIC PROSPECTING; SEISMOLOGY; STATISTICAL METHODS; WAVE PROPAGATION;

AFTERSHOCKS; DATA SETS; RICHTER SCALE; TIME AND SIZE DISTRIBUTION;

EARTHQUAKE EFFECTS;

AFTERSHOCK; EARTHQUAKE CATALOGUE; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; SEISMIC SOURCE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 7244247255     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/012003098     Document Type: Article

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