A new fractal approach to the clustering of earthquakes: physical fractal

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 88, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 89-94

  Chen, Yong ^a   Chen, Ling ^b   Liu, Zhaojun ^b   Wu, Ru Shan ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKE CLUSTERING; FRACTAL ANALYSIS;

CHINA; USA, CALIFORNIA;

EID: 0344505757     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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