Repeated intermittent earthquake cycles in the San Francisco Bay Region

Pure and Applied Geophysics

Volumn 167, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 801-818

  Bebbington, Mark S ^a   Harte, David S ^b   Jaumé, Steven C ^c  

^a MASSEY UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

^b Statistics Research Associates   (New Zealand)

^c School of Business   (United States)

Author keywords

Accelerating moment release; Earthquake magnitude; Hazard estimates; Tail behavior; Truncated Gutenberg Richter

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKE CATALOGUE; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; EARTHQUAKE PREDICTION; LOW VELOCITY ZONE; MODELING; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; SEISMIC HAZARD; STOCHASTICITY;

CALIFORNIA; SAN FRANCISCO BAY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 77954313382     PISSN: 00334553     EISSN: 14209136     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00024-010-0064-6     Document Type: Article

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