Heightened odds of large earthquakes near Istanbul: An interaction-based probability calculation

Science

Volumn 288, Issue 5466, 2000, Pages 661-665

  Parsons, Tom ^a   Toda, Shinji ^b   Stein, Ross S ^a   Barka, Aykut ^c   Dieterich, James H ^a  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c ISTANBUL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKE PRECURSOR; EARTHQUAKE PREDICTION; SEISMIC HAZARD; STRONG MOTION;

ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; EARTHQUAKE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; TURKEY (REPUBLIC);

TURKEY;

EID: 0034724954     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.288.5466.661     Document Type: Article

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