Earthquake lights and rupture processes

Natural Hazards and Earth System Science

Volumn 5, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 649-656

  Losseva, T V ^a   Nemchinov, I V ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOSPHERE DYNAMICS   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKE; ELECTRIC FIELD; LIGHT EFFECT; MAGNETIC FIELD;

EID: 27644444452     PISSN: 15618633     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/nhess-5-649-2005     Document Type: Article

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