A pre seismic radio anomaly revealed in the area where the Abruzzo earthquake (M=6.3) occurred on 6 April 2009

Natural Hazards and Earth System Science

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1551-1556

  Biagi, P F ^a   Castellana, L ^a   Maggipinto, T ^a   Loiacono, D ^a   Schiavulli, L ^a   Ligonzo, T ^a   Fiore, M ^b   Suciu, E ^c   Ermini, A ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARI   (Italy)

^b Elettronika Srl   (Italy)

^c Elettronika Research   (Romania)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKE EPICENTER; EARTHQUAKE EVENT; EARTHQUAKE INTENSITY; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; EARTHQUAKE PRECURSOR; SEISMICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

ABRUZZI; ITALY;

EID: 75749086262     PISSN: 15618633     EISSN: 16849981     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/nhess-9-1551-2009     Document Type: Article

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