Are megaquakes clustered?

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 39, Issue 6, 2012, Pages

  Daub, Eric G ^a,b   Ben Naim, Eli ^b,c   Guyer, Robert A ^a,d   Johnson, Paul A ^a  

^a LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b CENTER FOR NONLINEAR STUDIES   (United States)

^c LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS;

20TH CENTURY; CUMULATIVE DISTRIBUTION; EARTHQUAKE RECORDS; STATISTICAL PROPERTIES; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TIME INTERVAL;

EARTHQUAKES;

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; EARTHQUAKE EPICENTER; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; MAGNITUDE; NUMERICAL MODEL; THRESHOLD; TWENTIETH CENTURY; AFTERSHOCK; EARTHQUAKE EVENT; SIMULATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 84859347915     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2012GL051465     Document Type: Article

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