Correlation analysis technique revealing ionospheric precursors of earthquakes

Natural Hazards and Earth System Science

Volumn 4, Issue 5-6, 2004, Pages 697-702

  Pulinets, S A ^a   Gaivoronska, T B ^b   Contreras, A Leyva ^a   Ciraolo, L ^c  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

^b PUSHKOV INSTITUTE OF TERRESTRIAL MAGNETISM   (Russian Federation)

^c CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION; EARTHQUAKE PRECURSOR; IONOSPHERE; SEISMICITY;

EID: 11244341068     PISSN: 15618633     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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