A unified catalog of main earthquakes for northern Algeria from A.D. 856 to 2008

Seismological Research Letters

Volumn 81, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 732-739

  Hamdache, M ^a   Peláez, José A ^b   Talbi, A ^a   Casado, C López ^c  

^a Centre de Recherche en Astronomie Astrophysique et Geophysique   (Algeria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF JAÉN   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

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EID: 77957568817     PISSN: 08950695     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/gssrl.81.5.732     Document Type: Article

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