Precursory small earthquake migration patterns

Terra Nova

Volumn 23, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 369-374

  Wu, Yi Hsuan ^a   Chen, Chien chih ^a   Rundle, John B ^b  

^a NATIONAL CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKE EPICENTER; EARTHQUAKE EVENT; EARTHQUAKE PRECURSOR; EARTHQUAKE PREDICTION; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; FAULT ZONE; SEISMIC QUIESCENCE; SEISMIC SOURCE; SEISMICITY; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

TAIWAN;

EID: 82355175922     PISSN: 09544879     EISSN: 13653121     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3121.2011.01021.x     Document Type: Article

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