Apparent weekly and daily earthquake periodicities in the western United States

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 99, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 2273-2279

  Atef, Ali H ^a   Liu, Kelly H ^a   Gao, Stephen S ^a  

^a MISSOURI UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NOISE; MACHINERY;

EARTHQUAKE PERIODICITY; FREEWAY TRAFFIC FLOWS; OPERATING MACHINERIES; PERIODIC VARIATION; SCIENTIFIC EXPERIMENTS; SEISMIC NETWORKS; TEMPORAL VARIATION; WESTERN UNITED STATES;

EARTHQUAKES;

DATA PROCESSING; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; PERIODICITY; SEISMIC DATA; SEISMIC SOURCE; SEISMICITY; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 69549113183     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120080217     Document Type: Article

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