Specific variations of air temperature and relative humidity around the time of Michoacan earthquake M8.1 Sept. 19, 1985 as a possible indicator of interaction between tectonic plates

Tectonophysics

Volumn 431, Issue 1-4, 2007, Pages 221-230

  Pulinets, S A ^a   Dunajecka, M A ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Ionization; Radon; Tectonic plate; Thermal anomaly

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; EARTHQUAKE PREDICTION; IONIZATION; RADON; RELATIVE HUMIDITY; TECTONIC PLATE; TECTONIC SETTING;

EID: 33846544334     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2006.05.044     Document Type: Article

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