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earthquake and tectonic studies

This cluster of papers focuses on the study of seismic activity, tectonic plate interactions, and the geodetic measurements used to understand earthquake mechanisms, fault zones, subduction processes, and seismic hazard assessment. It covers topics such as slow slip events, fault frictional properties, seismic deformation, and the impact of geodetic measurements on understanding tectonic motion.

199,280 works

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Most cited

  1. New empirical relationships among magnitude, rupture length, rupture width, rupture area, and surface displacement

    Donald Wells, Kevin J. Coppersmith · 1994 · Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America · 7,841 citations

  2. New, improved version of generic mapping tools released

    Paul Wessel, Walter H. F. Smith · 1998 · Eos · 7,467 citations

  3. Cenozoic Tectonics of Asia: Effects of a Continental Collision: Features of recent continental tectonics in Asia can be interpreted as results of the India-Eurasia collision

    Péter Molnár, P. Tapponnier · 1975 · Science · 4,508 citations

  4. Some remarks on the development of sedimentary basins

    Dan McKenzie · 1978 · Earth and Planetary Science Letters · 3,935 citations

  5. Current plate motions

    Charles DeMets, Richard G. Gordon, Donald F. Argus, Seth Stein · 1990 · Geophysical Journal International · 3,747 citations

  6. Traveltimes for global earthquake location and phase identification

    B. L. N. Kennett, E. R. Engdahl · 1991 · Geophysical Journal International · 3,623 citations

Most recent

  1. Fluid Injection Triggers Large‐Scale Slow‐Slip Activation of the Rocky Mountain Fold and Thrust Belt

    Mirko van der Baan, Sergey Samsonov, Hannes Bathke, Raisha Pradisti · 2026 · Geophysical Research Letters · 0 citations

  2. Effects of Fault-Adjacent Topography on Supershear Rupture Behavior Along Strike-Slip Branch Fault Systems

    E. Marschall, Roby Douilly · 2026 · Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America · 0 citations

  3. Delayed submarine caldera subsidence creates extreme tsunami hazard

    Shane J. Cronin, B. Steinke, J. C. Borrero, Emile A. Okal · 2026 · Science Advances · 1 citations

  4. Smoothing Kernel-Based Versus Uncertainty-Driven Seismicity Models: Performance Comparison in the Gulf of Corinth (Greece)

    George Κaviris, Pavlos Bonatis, V. Karakostas, Christos Kourouklas · 2026 · Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) · 0 citations

  5. The Distribution of Interseismic Locking on the Cascadia Subduction Zone Using Bayesian Methods

    Anna E. R. Pearson, D. A. Schmidt · 2026 · Seismica · 0 citations

  6. Smoothing Kernel-Based Versus Uncertainty-Driven Seismicity Models: Performance Comparison in the Gulf of Corinth (Greece)

    George Κaviris, Pavlos Bonatis, V. Karakostas, Christos Kourouklas · 2026 · Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) · 0 citations

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