Identification of earthquake signals from groundwater level records using the HHT method

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 180, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 1231-1241

  Chen, Chieh Hung ^a   Wang, Chung Ho ^a   Liu, Jann Yenq ^b   Liu, Chen ^c   Liang, Wen Tzong ^a   Yen, Horng Yuan ^b   Yeh, Yih Hsiung ^a   Chia, Yee Ping ^d   Wang, Yetmen ^e  

^a INSTITUTE OF EARTH SCIENCES   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c DAHAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

^d NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^e ACD Co   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Earthquake interaction, forecasting, and prediction; Hydrology; Time series analysis

Indexed keywords

COSEISMIC PROCESS; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; EARTHQUAKE PREDICTION; GROUNDWATER; HYDROLOGY; IDENTIFICATION METHOD; SEISMIC WAVE; SIGNAL PROCESSING; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; TRANSFORM; WATER LEVEL;

TAIWAN;

EID: 77949956062     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2009.04473.x     Document Type: Article

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