Intermediate-Term Earthquake Prediction Using the Modified Time-to-Failure Method in Southern California

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 89, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 275-293

  Brehm, Daniel J ^a,b   Braile, Lawrence W ^b  

^a EXXONMOBIL UPSTREAM RESEARCH COMPANY   (United States)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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