Intermediate-term medium-range Accelerating Moment Release (AMR) priori to the 2010 Yushu Ms7.1 earthquake

Acta Geophysica Sinica

Volumn 54, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1501-1510

  Jiang, Chang Sheng ^a   Wu, Zhong Liang ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

Accelerating moment release (AMR); Intermediate term medium range earthquake forecast; Migration pattern; Time dependent seismic hazard; Yushu earthquake

Indexed keywords

AFTERSHOCK; EARTHQUAKE CATALOGUE; EARTHQUAKE EPICENTER; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; HOT SPOT; POWER LAW; SEISMIC HAZARD; SEISMIC MOMENT; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TIME DEPENDENT BEHAVIOR; TIMESCALE;

CHINA; QINGHAI; YUSHU;

EID: 79960512072     PISSN: 00015733     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.0001-5733.2011.06.009     Document Type: Article

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