Preseismic hydrogen gas anomalies caused by stress-corrosion process preceding earthquakes

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 26, Issue 13, 1999, Pages 2009-2012

  Ito, Takamori ^a,b   Nagamine, Koichiro ^a   Yamamoto, Koshi ^a   Adachi, Mamoru ^a   Kawabe, Iwao ^a  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUBBLE FORMATION; EARTHQUAKES; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; HYDROGEN; SEISMOLOGY; STRESS CORROSION CRACKING; BUBBLES (IN FLUIDS); CORROSION; GEOPHYSICS; GROUNDWATER; RADON; RESIDUAL STRESSES; SURFACE REACTIONS;

ASEISMIC SLIPS; FAULT ZONE; GAS BUBBLES; GAS MONITORING SYSTEMS; GEOCHEMICAL SIGNALS; MICROEARTHQUAKES; PRESEISMIC ANOMALIES;

GROUNDWATER GEOCHEMISTRY; FAULTING;

EARTHQUAKE PRECURSOR; GAS; GROUNDWATER; HYDROGEN;

JAPAN;

EARTHQUAKE NUCLEATION; FOCAL DISTANCES; FRACTURED ROCK; HYDROGEN GAS; MECHANOCHEMICAL REACTIONS; MICRO-EARTHQUAKES; SIMULTANEOUS MONITORING; STRESS CORROSION;

EID: 0032759044     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999GL900407     Document Type: Article

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