Correlation between the phase of the moon and occurences of microearthquakes in the Tamba region through point-process modeling

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 33, Issue 7, 2006, Pages

  Iwata, Takaki ^a   Katao, Hiroshi ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF STATISTICAL MATHEMATICS   (Japan)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION METHODS; EARTHQUAKE RESISTANCE; EARTHQUAKES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

MICROEARTHQUAKE; POINT-PROCESS MODELING; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

SEISMOLOGY;

CORRELATION; KOBE EARTHQUAKE 1995; LUNAR PHASE; MICROEARTHQUAKE; NUMERICAL MODEL;

EID: 33646835611     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005GL025510     Document Type: Article

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