Spatiotemporal variations in the b-value of earthquake magnitude-frequency distributions: Classification and causes

Tectonophysics

Volumn 615-616, Issue , 2014, Pages 1-11

  El Isa, Z H ^a   Eaton, David W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF JORDAN   (Jordan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

B Value; Frequency magnitude; Seismicity; Spatiotemporal

Indexed keywords

B VALUE; FREQUENCY-MAGNITUDE; FREQUENCY-MAGNITUDE DISTRIBUTION; MAGNITUDE-FREQUENCY DISTRIBUTION; SEISMICITY; SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL VARIATION; SPATIO-TEMPORAL VARIATION; SPATIOTEMPORAL;

GEOPHYSICS; PHYSICS;

EARTHQUAKES;

EARTHQUAKE CATALOGUE; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; EFFECTIVE STRESS; LEAST SQUARES METHOD; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEISMIC DATA; SEISMICITY; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 84893713730     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2013.12.001     Document Type: Review

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