Precursors to earthquakes: Seismoelectromagnetic signals

Surveys in Geophysics

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 493-516

  Park, Stephen K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKES; ELECTRIC FIELDS; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; KINETIC THEORY; MAGNETIC FIELDS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MONITORING; STATISTICAL METHODS; TRANSFER FUNCTIONS;

ELECTROKINETIC COUPLING; MAGNETOTELLURIC TRANSFER FUNCTIONS; SEISMOELECTRIC EMISSIONS; SEISMOELECTROMAGNETIC SIGNALS;

SEISMOLOGY;

EARTHQUAKE PRECURSOR; EARTHQUAKE PREDICTION; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; SEISMOELECTRIC EMISSION;

EID: 0030184144     PISSN: 01693298     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF01901642     Document Type: Article

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