Quantifying the time function of nonvolcanic tremor based on a stochastic model

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 115, Issue 8, 2010, Pages

  Ide, Satoshi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPLITUDE; BROWNIAN MOTION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EARTHQUAKE MECHANISM; INVERSE PROBLEM; NUMERICAL MODEL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; STOCHASTICITY; SUBDUCTION ZONE; TECTONIC SETTING;

CASCADIA SUBDUCTION ZONE; NANKAI TROUGH; PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 77956271582     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009JB000829     Document Type: Article

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