On possible scaling laws between electric earthquake precursors (EEP) and earthquake magnitude

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 26, Issue 13, 1999, Pages 2013-2016

  Vallianatos, F ^a   Tzanis, A ^b  

^a TECHNOLOGICAL EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CRETE   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC FIELDS; FRACTAL DIMENSION; FRACTALS; GEOMETRY; GEOPHYSICS; MAGNETIC FIELDS; MAGNETISM; POWER QUALITY; EARTHQUAKES; SPHERES;

DYNAMIC CRACK PROPAGATION; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDES; EARTHQUAKE PRECURSORS; EARTHQUAKE SEQUENCES; ELECTRIC AND MAGNETIC FIELDS; FRAGMENTATION PROCESS; QUASISTATIC APPROXIMATIONS; THEORETICAL SIMULATION;

EARTHQUAKES; SEISMIC PROSPECTING;

EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; ELECTRIC EARTHQUAKE PRECURSORS; SCALING LAWS;

EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; EARTHQUAKE PRECURSOR; ELECTRIC FIELD;

GREECE;

EID: 0032751721     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999GL900406     Document Type: Article

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