Absence of remotely triggered large earthquakes beyond the mainshock region

Nature Geoscience

Volumn 4, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 312-316

  Parsons, Tom ^a   Velasco, Aaron A ^b  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT EL PASO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFTERSHOCK; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EARTHQUAKE CATALOGUE; EARTHQUAKE DAMAGE; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; EARTHQUAKE TRIGGER; MICROEARTHQUAKE; SEISMIC HAZARD; SEISMIC WAVE;

EID: 79955631927     PISSN: 17520894     EISSN: 17520908     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ngeo1110     Document Type: Article

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