Spatial migration of earthquakes within seismic clusters in Southern California: Evidence for fluid diffusion

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 117, Issue 4, 2012, Pages

  Chen, X ^a   Shearer, P M ^a   Abercrombie, R E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOOTSTRAPPING; EARTHQUAKE MECHANISM; EARTHQUAKE SWARM; EFFECTIVE STRESS; FAULT SLIP; FOCAL MECHANISM; LEAST SQUARES METHOD; SEISMIC MIGRATION; SEISMICITY; SLIP RATE; SPATIAL ANALYSIS;

CALIFORNIA; SALTON TROUGH; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84859467035     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011JB008973     Document Type: Article

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