Precursory correlation dimensions for three great earthquakes

Current Science

Volumn 93, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 1522-1529

  Roy, P N S ^a   Nath, Sankar K ^b  

^a INDIAN SCHOOL OF MINES   (India)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

Asperity; Clustering; Precursory correlation dimension; Self similarity

Indexed keywords

EID: 37749008564     PISSN: 00113891     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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