Earthquake Prediction and Seismicity Patterns

✍ Scribed by Max Wyss (auth.), Max Wyss (eds.)

Publisher: Birkhäuser Basel
Year: 1979
Tongue: English
Leaves: 242
Series: Contributions to Current Research in Geophysics
Edition: 1
Category: Library

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✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-iii
Editor’s Note....Pages 1079-1081
Seismic Gaps and Plate Tectonics: Seismic Potential for Major Boundaries....Pages 1082-1147
Seismic Gaps and Source Zones of Recent Large Earthquakes in Coastal Peru....Pages 1148-1171
Two Kinds of Seismic Gaps....Pages 1172-1186
The Oaxaca Gap: A Case History....Pages 1187-1194
Seismic Quiescence Precursory to a Past and a Future Kurile Island Earthquake....Pages 1195-1211
Seismicity Variations in the Makran Region of Pakistan and Iran: Relation to Great Earthquakes....Pages 1212-1228
On Chinese Earthquake History — An Attempt to Model an Incomplete Data Set by Point Process Analysis....Pages 1229-1257
Space-Time Migration of Earthquakes Along the North Anatolian Fault Zone and Seismic Gaps....Pages 1258-1270
Spectral Analysis of Earthquake Migration in South America....Pages 1271-1285
A Preliminary Study on the Relationship between Precipitation and Large Earthquakes in Southern California....Pages 1286-1300
Anomalous Crustal Strain Prior to the 1923 Kanto, Japan, Earthquake as Deduced from Analysis of Old Triangulation Data....Pages 1301-1315

✦ Subjects

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