Past, current and future of Japanese national program for earthquake prediction research

Earth, Planets and Space

Volumn 56, Issue 8, 2004, Pages

  Hirata, Naoshi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Asperity; Earthquake prediction; National program; Quantitative forecast; The blue print

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKE PREDICTION;

EID: 20544463128     PISSN: 13438832     EISSN: 18805981     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/BF03353075     Document Type: Article

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