Space-time seismicity and earthquake swarms: Certain observations along the slow-spreading mid-Indian Ocean ridges

Proceedings of the Indian Academy of Sciences, Earth and Planetary Sciences

Volumn 107, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 161-173

  Radha Krishna, M ^a   Arora, S K ^b  

^a School of Marine Sciences   (India)

^b BHABHA ATOMIC RESEARCH CENTRE   (India)

Author keywords

Clustering; Indian ocean; Seismicity; Spreading ridges; Swarms

Indexed keywords

EID: 33745988258     PISSN: 02534126     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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