Does seismicity delineate zones where future large earthquakes are likely to occur in intraplate environments?

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 425, Issue , 2007, Pages 35-48

  Kafka, Alan L ^a  

^a BOSTON COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Earthquakes; Intraplate; Seismicity; Statistics

Indexed keywords

STATISTICS;

ACTIVE AREA; CONCEPTUAL MODEL; GLOBAL DATA; INTRAPLATE; LARGE EARTHQUAKES; LONG TERM RECORDS; PHYSICAL PHENOMENA; SEISMICITY;

EARTHQUAKES;

EARTHQUAKE; PROBABILITY; SEISMICITY; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 75749125071     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/2007.2425(03)     Document Type: Article

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