Predictions of the 1997 strong earthquakes in Jiashi, Xinjiang, China

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 89, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 1171-1183

  Zhang, Guomin ^b   Zhu, Lingren ^c   Song, Xiaodong ^a,b,d   Li, Zhixiong ^b   Yang, Maling ^c   Su, Naiqin ^c   Chen, Xuezhong ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^c EARTHQUAKE ADMINISTRATION OF XINJIANG UYGUR AUTONOMOUS REGION   (China)

^d Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKE PRECURSOR; EARTHQUAKE PREDICTION; SEISMIC HAZARD;

CHINA;

EID: 0033508111     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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