Variability in earthquake stress drop and apparent stress

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 38, Issue 6, 2011, Pages

  Baltay, Annemarie ^a   Ide, Satoshi ^b   Prieto, German ^c   Beroza, Gregory ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSIDAD DE LOS ANDES   (Colombia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKES; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; RISK ASSESSMENT;

ANOMALOUS EVENTS; APPARENT STRESS; CORNER FREQUENCY; EARTHQUAKE SEQUENCES; EMPIRICAL GREEN'S FUNCTIONS; RADIATED ENERGIES; SEISMIC HAZARD ANALYSIS; SEISMIC MOMENT; SPECTRAL SIGNATURE; STRESS DROP;

DROPS;

EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; GREEN FUNCTION; SEISMIC HAZARD; SEISMIC MOMENT;

JAPAN;

EID: 79953193385     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011GL046698     Document Type: Article

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