A fault and seismicity based composite simulation in northern California

Nonlinear Processes in Geophysics

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 955-966

  Yikilmaz, M B ^a   Heien, E M ^a   Turcotte, D L ^a   Rundle, J B ^a   Kellogg, L H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFTERSHOCK; EARTHQUAKE CATALOGUE; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; EARTHQUAKE MECHANISM; EARTHQUAKE RECURRENCE; FAULT ZONE; LOW VELOCITY ZONE; NUMERICAL MODEL; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; SEISMICITY; SPATIAL VARIATION;

CALIFORNIA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84855793712     PISSN: 10235809     EISSN: 16077946     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/npg-18-955-2011     Document Type: Article

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