Correlations between the mainshock and the largest aftershock for Taiwan earthquakes

Pure and Applied Geophysics

Volumn 169, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 1217-1229

  Chen, Kou Cheng ^a   Wang, Jeen Hwa ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF EARTH SCIENCES   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Correlation; Largest aftershock; Mainshock; Taiwan's earthquakes

Indexed keywords

DATA SETS; EARTHQUAKE DATA; LARGEST AFTERSHOCK; MAINSHOCK; MEAN VALUES; TAIWAN EARTHQUAKE;

GEOCHEMISTRY; GEOPHYSICS; OPTICAL CORRELATION;

EARTHQUAKES;

AFTERSHOCK; CORRELATION; EARTHQUAKE; EARTHQUAKE CATALOGUE; EARTHQUAKE EPICENTER; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE;

TAIWAN;

EID: 84863609078     PISSN: 00334553     EISSN: 14209136     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00024-011-0352-9     Document Type: Article

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