Source scaling relations have been obtained for earthquakes in eastern North America and other co'ntinental interiors, and compared with a relation obtained for earthquakes in western North America. The scaling relation for eastern North American earthquakes was constructed from measurements of seismic moment and source duration obtained by the waveform modeling of seismic body waves. The event...

The cellular seismology (CS) method of Kafka (2002, 2007) is presented as a least-astonishing null hypothesis that serves as a useful standard of comparison for other, more complex, spatial forecast methods (i.e., methods that forecast the locations, but not the times, of earthquakes). Spatial forecast methods based on analyses of earthquakes in California, such as that of Ebel et al. (2007) an...

The Cellular Seismology (CS) method of Kafka (2002, 2007) is presented as a leastastonishing null hypothesis that serves as a useful standard of comparison for other, more complex, spatial forecast methods (i.e., methods that forecast the locations, but not the times, of earthquakes). Spatial forecast methods based on analyses of earthquakes in California such as that of Ebel et al. (2007) and ...

following the 1994 northridge and 1995 kobe earthquakes, most of modern structures damaged seriously or devastated totally despite the seismic codes of these countries that had been expected to bear advanced criteria for seismic design of structures. after extensive research, the most probable reason of those destructions was attributed to special specifications of near-field earthquakes. in th...

Frictional melting and fluid pressurization can play a key role in rupture dynamics of large earthquakes. For faulting under frictional stress ar, the temperature increases with cr.r and the earthquake magnitude, Mw. If the thickness of the heated zone, w, is of the order of a few mm, then, even for a modest a1, the temperature rise, ll.T, would exceed 1000° for earthquakes with Mw=5 to 6, and ...

The spatial distribution of seismicity is often used as one of the indicators of zones where future large earthquakes are likely to occur. This is particularly true for intraplate regions such as the central and eastern United States, where geology is markedly enigmatic for delineating seismically active areas. Although using past seismicity for this purpose may be intuitively appealing, it is ...