Time variations of aftershock decay parameters of the 2009 April 6 L'Aquila (central Italy) earthquake: Evidence of the emergence of a negative exponential regime superimposed to the power law

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 185, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 764-774

  Lolli, Barbara ^a   Gasperini, Paolo ^b   Boschi, Enzo ^a,b  

^a ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI GEOFISICA E VULCANOLOGIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

And prediction; Earthquake interaction; Europe; Forecasting; Statistical seismology

Indexed keywords

AFTERSHOCK SEQUENCE; AKAIKE INFORMATION CRITERION; AND PREDICTION; CALIFORNIA; CENTRAL ITALY; DECAY MODEL; DECAY PARAMETERS; EPIDEMIC MODELS; EUROPE; MAIN SHOCK; NEGATIVE EXPONENTIAL; OMORI'S LAW; POWER-LAW; SEISMIC NETWORKS; SPATIAL VARIABILITY; STATISTICAL SEISMOLOGY; TIME EVOLUTIONS; TIME INTERVAL; TIME VARIATIONS;

DECAY (ORGANIC); EARTHQUAKE EFFECTS; EPIDEMIOLOGY; SEISMOLOGY;

FORECASTING;

AFTERSHOCK; EARTHQUAKE EVENT; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; EARTHQUAKE PREDICTION; FAULT; FORECASTING METHOD; SEISMOLOGY;

CALIFORNIA; ITALY; UNITED STATES;

AQUILA;

EID: 79954603798     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2011.04967.x     Document Type: Article

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