Earthquake patterns in diverse tectonic zones of the Globe

Pure and Applied Geophysics

Volumn 167, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 721-741

  Kagan, Y Y ^a   Bird, P ^a   Jackson, D D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Branching models of seismicity; Classification of the Earth's tectonic zones; Global and regional earthquake catalogs; Magnitude frequency relation; Statistical analysis of earthquake occurrence

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKE CATALOGUE; EARTHQUAKE EPICENTER; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; EARTHQUAKE PREDICTION; EARTHQUAKE RECURRENCE; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; EARTHQUAKE TRIGGER; FORECASTING METHOD; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ANALYSIS; SEISMICITY; SPREADING CENTER; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SUBDUCTION ZONE; TECTONIC SETTING;

CALIFORNIA; NEVADA; UNITED STATES;

AVES;

EID: 77954311702     PISSN: 00334553     EISSN: 14209136     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00024-010-0075-3     Document Type: Article

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