Surface-slip gradients of large earthquakes

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 101, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 792-804

  Shaw, Bruce E ^a  

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AVERAGE STRAIN; COHERENT STRUCTURE; CONSTANT STRESS; DIGITAL DATABASE; EARTH'S SURFACE; EARTHQUAKE DYNAMICS; LATERAL STRAIN; LENGTH SCALE; MEAN VALUES; MODERATE VALUE; NOISY ENVIRONMENT; SEPARATION DISTANCES; SLIP DISTRIBUTION; SLIP GRADIENTS; SURFACE SLIPS;

EXTRAPOLATION; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; STRAIN;

EARTHQUAKES;

EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; SEISMOLOGY; SLIP;

EID: 79953045195     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: 19433573     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120100053     Document Type: Article

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