Earthquake forecast appears feasible at Koyna, India

Current Science

Volumn 93, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 843-848

  Gupta, Harsh ^a   Shashidhar, D ^a   Pereira, Metilda ^a   Mandal, Prantik ^a   Rao, N Purnachandra ^a   Kousalya, M ^a   Satyanarayana, H V S ^a   Dimri, V P ^a  

^a NATIONAL GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (India)

Author keywords

Earthquake; Forecast; Koyna reservoir; Precursors

Indexed keywords

EID: 35348926031     PISSN: 00113891     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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