Seismicity precursors to large earthquakes unified in a stress accumulation framework

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 39, Issue 21, 2012, Pages

  Mignan, Arnaud ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTH SCIENCES; GEOPHYSICS;

LOGIC TREE; MAINSHOCK; SEISMICITY PATTERN; STRESS ACCUMULATION; STRESS STATE; THEORETICAL RESULT;

EARTHQUAKES;

EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; EARTHQUAKE PRECURSOR; EARTHQUAKE PREDICTION; FORESHOCK; SEISMICITY; STRESS ANALYSIS; TIME SERIES;

ABRUZZI; ITALY; L'AQUILA;

AQUILA;

EID: 84869436137     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2012GL053946     Document Type: Article

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