Earthquake scaling characteristics and the scale-(in)dependence of seismic energy-to-moment ratio: Insights from KiK-net data in Japan

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 37, Issue 19, 2010, Pages

  Oth, Adrien ^a   Bindi, Dino ^b   Parolai, Stefano ^b   Di Giacomo, Domenico ^b,c  

^a European Center for Geodynamics and Seismology and The Luxembourg National Museum of Natural History   (Luxembourg)

^b GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

^c INTERNATIONAL SEISMOLOGICAL CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA REDUCTION; EARTHQUAKES;

BOREHOLE RECORDINGS; DATA SELECTION; EARTHQUAKE SOURCE; ENERGY RADIATIONS; MOMENT RATIO; SCALING PROPERTIES; SEISMIC ENERGY; SELF-SIMILAR; SPECTRAL INVERSION; STRESS DROP;

DROPS;

ACCELEROMETER; BOREHOLE; EARTHQUAKE EPICENTER; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS;

JAPAN;

EID: 77958039824     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010GL044572     Document Type: Article

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