Distinguished seismological and electromagnetic features of the impending global failure: Did the 7/9/1999 M5.9 Athens earthquake come with a warning?

Earth, Planets and Space

Volumn 57, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 215-230

  Kapiris, Panayiotis ^a   Nomicos, Konstantinos ^b   Antonopoulos, George ^a   Polygiannakis, John ^a   Karamanos, Konstantinos ^c   Kopanas, John ^a   Zissos, Athanassios ^b   Peratzakis, Athanassios ^a   Eftaxias, Konstantinos ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WEST ATTICA   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Athens earthquake; Earthquake prediction; electromagnetic emissions; fault nucleation; fracture; intermittent criticality; scaling laws; wavelet analysis

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKE PREDICTION;

ATHENS [ATTICA]; ATTICA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; EUROPE; GREECE; SOUTHERN EUROPE; WORLD;

EID: 21844474842     PISSN: 13438832     EISSN: 18805981     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/BF03351818     Document Type: Article

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