Electromagnetic precursors to the 2004 Mid Niigata Prefecture earthquake

Physics and Chemistry of the Earth

Volumn 31, Issue 4-9, 2006, Pages 356-364

  Hayakawa, M ^a   Ohta, K ^b   Maekawa, S ^a   Yamauchi, T ^a   Ida, Y ^a   Gotoh, T ^a   Yonaiguchi, N ^a   Sasaki, H ^a   Nakamura, T ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRO COMMUNICATIONS   (Japan)

^b CHUBU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c KOCHI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Electromagnetic precursors; Ionospheric perturbations; The 2004 Niigata earthquake; ULF emission; VHF atmospheric emission

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKES; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD MEASUREMENT; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE EMISSION; LITHOLOGY; SEISMIC WAVES;

ELECTROMAGNETIC PRECURSORS; IONOSPHERIC PERTURBATIONS; NIIGATA PREFECTURE EARTHQUAKE; ULTRA LOW FREQUENCY EMISSION; VERY HIGH FREQUENCY ATMOSPHERIC EMISSION;

GEOPHYSICAL PROSPECTING;

EARTHQUAKE EVENT; EARTHQUAKE PRECURSOR; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE;

ASIA; CHUBU; EURASIA; FAR EAST; HONSHU; JAPAN; NIIGATA;

EID: 33744947321     PISSN: 14747065     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pce.2006.02.023     Document Type: Article

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