Earthquakes rupturing the Chelungpu fault in Taiwan are time predictable

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 32, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 1-4

  Wang, Jeen Hwa ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF EARTH SCIENCES   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FAILURE ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SEISMOLOGY; STRAIN;

EARTHQUAKE RECURRENCE; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; PLATE FAULTS; SLIP RATES;

EARTHQUAKES;

CHI-CHI EARTHQUAKE 1999; EARTHQUAKE RECURRENCE; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; FAULT SLIP; SLIP RATE;

ASIA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; FAR EAST; TAIWAN; WORLD;

EID: 20044379615     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2004GL021884     Document Type: Article

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