Experience of short term earthquake precursors with VLF-VHF electromagnetic emissions

Natural Hazards and Earth System Science

Volumn 3, Issue 3-4, 2003, Pages 217-228

  Eftaxias, K ^a   Kapiris, P ^a   Polygiannakis, J ^a   Peratzakis, A ^a   Kopanas, J ^a   Antonopoulos, G ^a   Rigas, D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKE PRECURSOR; ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION;

EID: 1642360107     PISSN: 15618633     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/nhess-3-217-2003     Document Type: Article

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