Predicting the 1975 Haicheng earthquake

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 96, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 757-795

  Wang, Kelin ^a   Chen, Qi Fu ^b   Sun, Shihong ^c   Wang, Andong ^d  

^a Geological Survey of Canada Sidney   (Canada)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^c CHINA EARTHQUAKE NETWORKS CENTER   (China)

^d Seismological Bureau of Liaoning Province   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISASTER PREVENTION; FORECASTING; GEODESY; SEISMOLOGY;

HAICHENG EARTHQUAKE; MIDDLE-TERM PREDICTIONS; REAL-TIME DOCUMENTATION;

EARTHQUAKES;

EARTHQUAKE EVENT; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; EARTHQUAKE PRECURSOR; EARTHQUAKE PREDICTION; FORESHOCK;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 33745463246     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120050191     Document Type: Article

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