Temporal properties of seismicity and largest earthquakes in SE Carpathians

Nonlinear Processes in Geophysics

Volumn 13, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 629-639

  Byrdina, S ^a   Shebalin, P ^a,b   Narteau, C ^a   Le Mouel J L ^a  

^a INSTITUT DE PHYSIQUE DU GLOBE DE PARIS   (France)

^b INSTITUTE OF EARTHQUAKE PREDICTION THEORY AND MATHEMATICAL GEOPHYSICS   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKE; HISTORICAL ECOLOGY; NATURAL HAZARD; POISSON RATIO; RECURRENCE INTERVAL; SEISMICITY; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

CARPATHIANS; EURASIA; EUROPE; ROMANIA; SOUTHERN EUROPE; VRANCEA;

EID: 33751340894     PISSN: 10235809     EISSN: 16077946     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/npg-13-629-2006     Document Type: Article

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