Stress, distance, magnitude, and clustering influences on the success or failure of an aftershock forecast: The 2013 M 6.6 Lushan earthquake and other examples

Seismological Research Letters

Volumn 85, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 44-51

  Parsons, Tom ^a   Segou, Margaret ^b  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE NICE SOPHIA ANTIPOLIS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFTERSHOCK; EARTHQUAKE EVENT; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; FORECASTING METHOD; STRESS;

CHINA; LUSHAN [SICHUAN]; SICHUAN;

EID: 84893739307     PISSN: 08950695     EISSN: 19382057     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0220130100     Document Type: Article

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