Scaling laws between seismo-electric/magnetic fields and earthquake magnitude

Terra Nova

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 152-156

  Takeuchi, Akihiro ^a   Nagahama, H ^b  

^a NIIGATA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; ELECTRIC FIELD; MAGNETIC FIELD; SCALE EFFECT;

EID: 2642574168     PISSN: 09544879     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3121.2004.00546.x     Document Type: Article

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