Major earthquakes occur regularly on an isolated plate boundary fault

Science

Volumn 336, Issue 6089, 2012, Pages 1690-1693

  Berryman, Kelvin R ^a   Cochran, Ursula A ^a   Clark, Kate J ^a   Biasi, Glenn P ^b   Langridge, Robert M ^a   Villamor, Pilar ^a  

^a GNS SCIENCE   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GEOLOGICAL RECORD; PLATE BOUNDARY; PLATE MOTION; SEISMIC HAZARD; SLIP RATE; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT; VARIANCE ANALYSIS;

ARTICLE; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; EARTHQUAKE; GEOMETRY; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NEW ZEALAND; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRATIGRAPHY;

NEW ZEALAND;

EID: 84862983918     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1218959     Document Type: Article

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