Multifractal measures of time series of earthquakes

Journal of Physics of the Earth

Volumn 45, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 331-345

  Wang, Jeen Hwa ^a   Lee, Chung Wein ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF EARTH SCIENCES   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKE; FRACTAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0031403018     PISSN: 00223743     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4294/jpe1952.45.331     Document Type: Article

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