Earthquake clustering relative to lunar phases in Taiwan

Terrestrial, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 289-298

  Lin, Cheng Horng ^a   Yeh, Yih Hsiung ^a   Chen, Yuh Ing ^b   Liu, Jann Yeng ^b   Chen, Kuang Jung ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF EARTH SCIENCES   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c NATIONAL TAIWAN NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Earthquake triggering; Lunar phase; Seismicity; Tidal force

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKE CATALOGUE; EARTHQUAKE TRIGGER; LUNAR PHASE; SEISMICITY; TIDAL CYCLE;

TAIWAN;

EID: 0242626676     PISSN: 10170839     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3319/TAO.2003.14.3.289(T)     Document Type: Article

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