Mapping the η-value and the test results on the Hyper-Gutenberg-Richter relation for microseismicity around the Japanese Islands

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 100, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 876-881

  Tsukakoshi, Yoshiki ^a  

^a NATIONAL AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH CENTER   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONVEX CURVATURES; DISTRIBUTION MODELS; FREQUENCY-MAGNITUDE DISTRIBUTION; MICROSEISMICITY; SOURCE REGION; SPATIAL VARIATIONS; TEST RESULTS;

EARTHQUAKES;

ALGORITHM; EARTHQUAKE EVENT; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; EARTHQUAKE PRECURSOR; EARTHQUAKE PREDICTION; FREQUENCY-MAGNITUDE DISTRIBUTION; MAPPING METHOD; PARAMETERIZATION; SEISMICITY; SPATIAL VARIATION;

EID: 77950350656     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120080307     Document Type: Article

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