Convergence of the frequency-size distribution of global earthquakes

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 40, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 2585-2589

  Bell, Andrew F ^a   Naylor, Mark ^a   Main, Ian G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

earthquake magnitudes; Gutenberg Richter Law; power law statistics

Indexed keywords

CENTROID MOMENT TENSORS; CONVERGENCE PROPERTIES; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDES; FREQUENCY-MAGNITUDE DISTRIBUTION; FREQUENCY-MAGNITUDE RELATIONS; FREQUENCY-SIZE DISTRIBUTIONS; GUTENBERG-RICHTER LAW; POWER-LAW STATISTICS;

EARTH SCIENCES; GEOPHYSICS;

EARTHQUAKES;

CONVERGENCE; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; FREQUENCY-MAGNITUDE DISTRIBUTION; POWER LAW; SEISMOLOGY; SIZE DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 84879976262     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/grl.50416     Document Type: Article

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