Detailed distribution of accelerating foreshocks before a M 5.1 earthquake in Japan

Pure and Applied Geophysics

Volumn 155, Issue 2-4, 1999, Pages 335-353

  Yamaoka, Koshun ^a   Ooida, Toru ^a   Ueda, Yoshihiro ^b  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b JAPAN METEOROLOGICAL AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Seismicity; Temporal variation; Time to failure analysis

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION; EARTHQUAKE HYPOCENTER; EARTHQUAKE PREDICTION; FORESHOCK; SEISMICITY;

JAPAN;

EID: 0032708877     PISSN: 00334553     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s000240050268     Document Type: Article

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