Detecting precursory earthquake migration patterns using the pattern informatics method

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 35, Issue 19, 2008, Pages

  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

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKES;

DYNAMIC MODIFICATIONS; EARTHQUAKE MIGRATIONS; HOT SPOTS; INFORMATICS; MIGRATION PATTERNS; PREPARATION PROCESSES; SEISMIC ACTIVITIES;

SEISMOLOGY;

DETECTION METHOD; EARTHQUAKE EPICENTER; EARTHQUAKE MECHANISM; EARTHQUAKE PRECURSOR; EARTHQUAKE PREDICTION; INFORMATICS; PATTERN RECOGNITION; SEISMIC MIGRATION; SEISMIC ZONE; SEISMICITY;

EID: 57749207686     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008GL035215     Document Type: Article

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