Lessons from the 2004 Sumatra-Andaman earthquake

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 364, Issue 1845, 2006, Pages 1927-1945

  Kanamori, Hiroo ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Damaging earthquakes; Earthquake early warning; Earthquake prediction; Scenario earthquakes; Sumatra Andaman earthquake; Tsunami warning

Indexed keywords

EID: 33748117557     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2006.1806     Document Type: Article

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