Evidence of fractional-Brownian-motion-type asperity model for earthquake generation in candidate pre-seismic electromagnetic emissions

Natural Hazards and Earth System Science

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 657-669

  Eftaxias, K ^a   Contoyiannis, Y ^a   Balasis, G ^b   Karamanos, K ^a   Kopanas, J ^a   Antonopoulos, G ^a   Koulouras, G ^c   Nomicos, C ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b NATIONAL OBSERVATORY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WEST ATTICA   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASPERITY; BROWNIAN MOTION; EARTHQUAKE; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; MODELING; NUCLEATION; SEISMICITY;

EID: 47549092783     PISSN: 15618633     EISSN: 16849981     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/nhess-8-657-2008     Document Type: Article

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