Shear-wave splitting and earthquake forecasting

Terra Nova

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 440-448

  Gao, Yuan ^a,b   Crampin, Stuart ^a,b,c  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^c BRITISH GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHI-CHI EARTHQUAKE 1999; EARTHQUAKE DAMAGE; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; EARTHQUAKE PREDICTION; EARTHQUAKE SWARM; FORECASTING METHOD; S-WAVE; WAVE SPLITTING;

EURASIA; EUROPE; ICELAND; NORTHERN EUROPE; SCANDINAVIA;

EID: 56849115898     PISSN: 09544879     EISSN: 13653121     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3121.2008.00836.x     Document Type: Article

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