Open AccessEarthquake Statistics Vary with Fault Size
Author(s) -
Aaron Sidder
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
eos
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.316
H-Index - 86
eISSN - 2324-9250
pISSN - 0096-3941
DOI - 10.1029/2019eo135771
Subject(s) - statistics , seismology , fault (geology) , geology , mathematics
A theoretical study explores why small earthquake sources can produce quasiperiodic sequences of identical events, whereas earthquakes on large faults are intrinsically more variable.