Scaling relations of earthquake source parameter estimates with special focus on subduction environment

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 100, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 2914-2926

  Blaser, Lilian ^a   Krüger, Frank ^a   Ohrnberger, Matthias ^a   Scherbaum, Frank ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA SETS; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDES; EARTHQUAKE PARAMETERS; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; EARTHQUAKE SOURCE PARAMETERS; FAULT MECHANISM; FOCAL MECHANISM; LARGE DATABASE; LEAST SQUARES; MOMENT MAGNITUDES; ORTHOGONAL REGRESSION; RUPTURE AREAS; SCALING RELATIONS; SEISMIC NETWORKS; SOURCE PARAMETERS; STRIKE-SLIP EARTHQUAKES; SUBDUCTION ENVIRONMENTS; SUBDUCTION ZONES; TECHNICAL PROGRESS; THRUST FAULTING; TSUNAMIGENIC POTENTIAL;

ASPECT RATIO; EARTHQUAKE EFFECTS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; SEISMOLOGY; WELLS;

TECTONICS;

DATABASE; EARTHQUAKE; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; FOCAL MECHANISM; RUPTURE; SEISMIC MOMENT; SEISMICITY; SEISMOLOGY; SLIP; SOURCE PARAMETERS; SUBDUCTION ZONE; THRUST FAULT;

EID: 78649864042     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: 19433573     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120100111     Document Type: Article

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