Random stress and Omori's law

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 186, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 1347-1364

  Kagan, Yan Y ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Earthquake interaction, forecasting, and prediction; Intra plate processes; North America; Probability distributions; Statistical seismology; Time series analysis

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKE SIZE DISTRIBUTION; FOCAL ZONES; INTRA-PLATE PROCESSES; INVERSE GAUSSIAN; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; NORTH AMERICA; OMORI'S LAW; POWER-LAW; RANDOM FACTORS; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTION; STATISTICAL REGULARITY; STATISTICAL SEISMOLOGY; STRESS BEHAVIOUR; STRESS TIME; TECTONIC DEFORMATIONS; THEORETICAL RESULT; TIME INTERVAL;

BROWNIAN MOVEMENT; EARTHQUAKES; LABORATORIES; STRESS CONCENTRATION; TECTONICS; TIME SERIES; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS;

AFTERSHOCK; BROWNIAN MOTION; DEFORMATION; EARTHQUAKE PREDICTION; GEOSTATISTICS; INTRAPLATE PROCESS; PLATE TECTONICS; POWER LAW DISTRIBUTION; PROBABILITY; SEISMOLOGY; SEISMOTECTONICS; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 80051793807     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2011.05114.x     Document Type: Article

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