Aftershock decay of three recent strong earthquakes in the Levant

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 88, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 1580-1587

  Rabinowitz, Nitzan ^a   Steinberg, David M ^b  

^a GEOPHYSICAL INSTITUTE OF ISRAEL   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFTERSHOCK; EARTHQUAKE;

GULF OF AQABA; RED SEA;

EID: 0032441723     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/bssa0880061580     Document Type: Article

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