Electron and ion density variations before strong earthquakes (M>6.0) using DEMETER and GPS data

Natural Hazards and Earth System Science

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 7-18

  Akhoondzadeh, M ^a,b   Parrot, M ^b   Saradjian, M R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

^b CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPLITUDE; DEMETER; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; ELECTRON DENSITY; GEOMAGNETIC FIELD; GPS; ION;

EID: 75749157022     PISSN: 15618633     EISSN: 16849981     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/nhess-10-7-2010     Document Type: Article

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