Can free oscillations trigger foreshocks that allow earthquake prediction?

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 26, Issue 7, 1999, Pages 891-894

  Costello, Scott W ^a   Tullis, Terry E ^a  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKE EFFECTS; FORECASTING; SAMPLING; SEISMOLOGY; EARTHQUAKES; GEOPHYSICS;

EARTHQUAKE PREDICTION; FREE OSCILLATIONS; TRIGGER FORESHOCKS;

EARTHQUAKES; FORECASTING;

EARTHQUAKE PREDICTION; EARTHQUAKE TRIGGER; FORESHOCK; OSCILLATION;

EARTHQUAKE PREDICTION; FREE OSCILLATION; LOMA PRIETA EARTHQUAKES; MAINSHOCK; NULL HYPOTHESIS; RANDOM DATA; SAMPLING BIAS; SMALL EARTHQUAKES;

EID: 0033117552     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999GL900143     Document Type: Article

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