Rethinking earthquake-related DC-ULF electromagnetic phenomena: Towards a physics-based approach

Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences

Volumn 11, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 2941-2949

  Huang, Q ^a,b  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Peking University   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKE EVENT; EARTHQUAKE PREDICTION; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; SEISMOGRAM; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

EID: 84875601786     PISSN: 15618633     EISSN: 16849981     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/nhess-11-2941-2011     Document Type: Article

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