On the recurrence time of earthquakes: Insight from Vrancea (Romania) intermediate-depth events

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 172, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 395-404

  Enescu, B ^a   Struzik, Z ^b   Kiyono, K ^c  

^a GeoForschungsZentrum Telegrafenberg ^*  (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c NIHON UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Earthquake interaction, forecasting and prediction; Persistence, memory, correlations, clustering; Seismicity and tectonics; Time series analysis

Indexed keywords

AFTERSHOCK; EARTHQUAKE CATALOGUE; EARTHQUAKE PREDICTION; EARTHQUAKE RECURRENCE; POWER LAW; SEISMICITY; TECTONICS; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

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

EID: 37549013787     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2007.03664.x     Document Type: Article

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