The 2002 M5 Au Sable Forks, NY, earthquake sequence: Source scaling relationships and energy budget

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 115, Issue 7, 2010, Pages

  Viegas, Gisela ^a   Abercrombie, Rachel E ^a   Kim, Won Young ^b  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFTERSHOCK; EARTHQUAKE EVENT; ENERGY BUDGET; FAULT; GREEN FUNCTION; INTRAPLATE PROCESS; LOWER CRUST; SEISMIC MOMENT; SOURCE PARAMETERS; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS; STRAIN RATE; STRESS; TRANSFORM; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; ESTIMATION METHOD; NUMERICAL MODEL; STRESS CHANGE;

NEW YORK [UNITED STATES]; UNITED STATES;

EID: 77955207235     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009JB006799     Document Type: Article

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