Aftershocks halted by static stress shadows

Nature Geoscience

Volumn 5, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 410-413

  Toda, Shinji ^a   Stein, Ross S ^b   Beroza, Gregory C ^c   Marsan, David ^d  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITÉ DE SAVOIE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFTERSHOCK; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; EARTHQUAKE TRIGGER; FAULT SLIP; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; LANDERS EARTHQUAKE 1992; SEISMIC WAVE; SEISMICITY; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; STATIC RESPONSE;

CALIFORNIA; LANDERS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84861693060     PISSN: 17520894     EISSN: 17520908     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ngeo1465     Document Type: Article

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