Seismicity patterns: Are they always related to natural causes?

Pure and Applied Geophysics

Volumn 155, Issue 2-4, 1999, Pages 713-726

  Zúñiga, F Ramón ^a   Wiemer, Stefan ^b  

^a CENTRO DE FÍSICA APLICADA Y TECNOLOGÍA AVANZADA   (Mexico)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKE CATALOGUE; EARTHQUAKE TRIGGER; SEISMICITY; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0345422725     PISSN: 00334553     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s000240050285     Document Type: Article

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