Remote triggering not evident near epicenters of impending great earthquakes

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 103, Issue 2 B, 2013, Pages 1522-1540

  van der Elst, Nicholas J ^a,b   Brodsky, Emily E ^a   Lay, Thorne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONFIDENCE LEVELS; DYNAMIC TRIGGERING; EARTHQUAKE CATALOGS; EPICENTRAL REGION; LARGE EARTHQUAKES; REFERENCE MODELS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TRIGGERING SIGNAL;

STATISTICAL TESTS;

EARTHQUAKES;

AFTERSHOCK; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; EARTHQUAKE CATALOGUE; EARTHQUAKE EPICENTER; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; EARTHQUAKE TRIGGER; FAULT; SEISMIC SOURCE; SEISMICITY;

EID: 84877308122     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: 19433573     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120120126     Document Type: Article

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