Epistemic uncertainty in California-wide synthetic seismicity simulations

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 101, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 2481-2498

  Pollitz, Fred F ^a  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALIFORNIA; CASCADE MECHANISM; COEFFICIENT OF VARIATION; CONDITIONAL PROBABILITIES; COULOMB FAILURE CRITERIA; CRUSTAL STRESS; EARTHQUAKE SIMULATOR; EPISTEMIC UNCERTAINTIES; FAULT NETWORKS; FAULT-SLIP RATES; INPUT PARAMETER; KEY INPUT; LOWER CRUST; MANTLE VISCOSITY; MEAN STRESS; MULTI-SEGMENT; RECURRENCE TIME; SAN ANDREAS FAULT; SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA; STATIC STRESS; VERTICAL STRATIFICATION; VISCO-ELASTIC MATERIAL; VISCOELASTIC RELAXATION;

EARTHQUAKES; LIBRARIES; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; TECTONICS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; VISCOSITY;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

COULOMB CRITERION; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; EARTHQUAKE RECURRENCE; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; EARTHQUAKE TRIGGER; FAULT SLIP; FORESHOCK; SEISMIC HAZARD; SEISMICITY; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

CALIFORNIA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 80053185159     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: 19433573     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120100303     Document Type: Article

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