Frequency-size distributions for intraplate earthquakes

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 425, Issue , 2007, Pages 59-71

  Okal, Emile A ^a   Sweet, Justin R ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Fe vahies; Intraplate earthquakes; Seismic scaling laws

Indexed keywords

FAULTING; FRACTAL DIMENSION; SURFACE WAVES;

BRITTLE DUCTILE TRANSITIONS; CENTROID MOMENT TENSORS; FREQUENCY SIZE DISTRIBUTIONS; INTERPLATE EARTHQUAKES; INTRAPLATE EARTHQUAKES; SEISMIC SCALING; SURFACE WAVE MAGNITUDES; TECTONIC DEFORMATIONS;

EARTHQUAKES;

CENTROID MOMENT TENSOR; DATA SET; DEFORMATION; EARTHQUAKE; FAULT; PLATE TECTONICS; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; SATURATION; SEISMIC MOMENT; SEISMIC ZONE;

EID: 75749090495     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/2007.2425(05)     Document Type: Article

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