LURR's twenty years and its perspective

Pure and Applied Geophysics

Volumn 163, Issue 11-12, 2006, Pages 2317-2341

  Yin, Xiang Chu ^a,b   Zhang, Lang Ping ^b   Zhang, Hui Hui ^b   Yin, Can ^c   Wang, Yucang ^b,c   Zhang, Yongxian ^b,d   Peng, Keyin ^b,d   Wang, Haitao ^b,e   Song, Zhiping ^b,e   Yu, Huaizhong ^b   Zhuang, Jiancang ^b,f  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF MECHANICS   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^d CHINA EARTHQUAKE NETWORKS CENTER   (China)

^e DIF   (France)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Earthquake prediction; Laboratory study; Load Unload Response Ratio (LURR); Numerical simulation

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; EARTHQUAKE PREDICTION; PROBABILITY; SEISMICITY;

EID: 33846477353     PISSN: 00334553     EISSN: 14209136     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00024-006-0135-x     Document Type: Article

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