Precursory seismic activation of the Pingtung (Taiwan) offshore doublet earthquakes on 26 December 2006: A pattern informatics analysis

Terrestrial, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 743-749

  Wu, Yi Hsuan ^a   Chen, Chien Chih ^a   Rundle, John B ^b  

^a NATIONAL CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Pattern informatics; Pingtung offshore doublet earthquakes; Precursory phenomena; Seismicity changes

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKE HYPOCENTER; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; EARTHQUAKE PRECURSOR; FREQUENCY-MAGNITUDE DISTRIBUTION; HOT SPOT; SEISMICITY; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

ASIA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; PINGTUNG; TAIWAN;

EID: 57749195236     PISSN: 10170839     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3319/TAO.2008.19.6.743(PT)     Document Type: Article

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