Occurrence of anomalous seismic activity preceding large to great earthquakes in northeast India region with special reference to 6 August 1988

Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors

Volumn 148, Issue 2-4, 2005, Pages 261-284

  Singh, H N ^a   Shanker, D ^b   Singh, V P ^c  

^a CENTRE FOR EARTH SCIENCE STUDIES   (India)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY ROORKEE   (India)

^c BANARAS HINDU UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Anomalous seismic activity; Precursory swarm; Precursory time gap; Quiescence; Seismicity rates

Indexed keywords

DATABASE SYSTEMS; EARTHQUAKE EFFECTS; EARTHQUAKES; FORECASTING; SEISMOLOGY;

EARTHQUAKE FREQUENCY; EARTHQUAKE PREDICTION; SEISMIC ACTIVITY;

SEISMIC PROSPECTING;

EARTHQUAKE PRECURSOR; EARTHQUAKE SWARM; SEISMICITY;

ASIA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; INDIA; SOUTH ASIA; WORLD;

EID: 13144296638     PISSN: 00319201     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pepi.2004.09.004     Document Type: Article

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