Comment on "signature of pending earthquake from electromagnetic anomalies" by K. Eftaxias et al.

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 29, Issue 18, 2002, Pages

  Pham, V N ^a   Geller, Robert J ^b  

^a INSTITUT DE PHYSIQUE DU GLOBE DE PARIS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GEOPHYSICS;

BACKGROUND NOISE; EARTHQUAKE SOURCE PARAMETERS; VERY LOW FREQUENCY;

EARTHQUAKES;

EID: 0242418229     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2002GL015328     Document Type: Article

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