Irpinia earthquake 23 November 1980 - Lesson from nature reviled by joint data analysis

Annals of Geophysics

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 61-78

  Pulinets, Sergey A ^a   Biagi, Pierfrancesco ^b   Tramutoli, Valerio ^c   Legen'ka, Anna D ^d   Depuev, Victor Kh ^d  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

^b POLITECNICO DI BARI   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BASILICATA   (Italy)

^d PUSHKOV INSTITUTE OF TERRESTRIAL MAGNETISM   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Ionization; Lithosphere atmosphere ionosphere coupling; Radon

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERE; AVHRR; EARTHQUAKE EVENT; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; IONIZATION; IONOSPHERE; LITHOSPHERE; NOAA SATELLITE; RADON; SEISMIC DATA;

BASILICATA; EURASIA; EUROPE; ITALY; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 34547773070     PISSN: 15935213     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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