Searching for an earthquake Precursor-A case study of precursory swarm as a real seismic pattern before major shocks

Pure and Applied Geophysics

Volumn 167, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 655-666

  Shanker, D ^a   Singh, H N ^b   Paudyal, H ^c   Kumar, A ^b   Panthi, A ^b   Singh, V P ^b  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY ROORKEE   (India)

^b BANARAS HINDU UNIVERSITY   (India)

^c TRIBHUVAN UNIVERSITY   (Nepal)

Author keywords

Long range earthquake prediction; Northeast India region; Precursory phenomena; Seismic precursors; Swarm episode

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; EARTHQUAKE PRECURSOR; EARTHQUAKE PREDICTION; EARTHQUAKE SWARM; FORESHOCK; LONG RANGE FORECAST; SEISMICITY;

INDIA;

YOMA;

EID: 77954313167     PISSN: 00334553     EISSN: 14209136     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00024-010-0067-3     Document Type: Article

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