A systematic test of time-to-failure analysis

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 133, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 57-64

  Gross, Susanna ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Earthquake prediction; Fitting; Seismicity; Statistics

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKE PREDICTION; FAILURE ANALYSIS;

EID: 0031818333     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-246X.1998.1331469.x     Document Type: Article

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