Virtual California earthquake simulations: Simple models and their application to an observed sequence of earthquakes

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 180, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 734-742

  Yikilmaz, M B ^a   Turcotte, D L ^a   Yakovlev, G ^a   Rundle, J B ^a   Kellogg, L H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Earthquake dynamics; Earthquake interaction; Forecasting and prediction

Indexed keywords

ASPERITY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EARTHQUAKE CATALOGUE; EARTHQUAKE EVENT; EARTHQUAKE MECHANISM; EARTHQUAKE PREDICTION; FORECASTING METHOD; HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE; NUMERICAL MODEL; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; SEISMICITY; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT; TECTONIC SETTING;

NANKAI TROUGH; PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 74549206787     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2009.04435.x     Document Type: Article

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