Scalingand universality in the dynamics of seismic occurrenceand beyond

Acoustic Emission and Critical Phenomena: From Structural Mechanics to Geophysics

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 225-244

  Corral, Álvaro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

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DOI: 10.1201/9780203892220-21     Document Type: Chapter

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