Earthquake time series analysis by Cantor set model in Taiwan

Terrestrial, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 85-98

  Chen, Yen Chieh ^a   Sung, Quo Cheng ^b   Yu, Ting To ^a   Sun, Robert J ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL KAOHSIUNG NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Cantor set; Clustering; Earthquakes of Taiwan; Fractal

Indexed keywords

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; EARTHQUAKE; FREQUENCY-MAGNITUDE DISTRIBUTION; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

TAIWAN;

EID: 0037646744     PISSN: 10170839     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3319/tao.2003.14.1.85(t)     Document Type: Article

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