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This journal is a peer reviewed, fully open access journal owned by Institute of Geophysics, China Earthquake Administration. Institute of Geophysics, China Earthquake Administration. retains copyright of the overall compiled journal and the compiled issues. All articles will be immediately and permanently free for everyone to read and download. To provide open access, this journal has an open access fee (also known as an Article Processing Charge, APC) which needs to be paid by the authors or on their behalf e.g. by their research funder or institution. The APC for this journal is USD 1000, excluding taxes.

Peer review under the responsibility of Institute of Geophysics, China Earthquake Administration.

Access Rights
All articles published open access will be immediately and permanently free for everyone to read, download, copy and distribute.

User Rights
Permitted third party reuse is defined by the following user license(s):

Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY):
Allows users to copy, to create extracts, abstracts and new works from the Article, to alter and revise the Article and to make commercial use of the Article (including reuse and/or resale of the Article by commercial entities), provided the user gives appropriate credit (with a link to the formal publication through the relevant DOI), provides a link to the license, indicates if changes were made and the licensor is not represented as endorsing the use made of the work. The full details of the license are available at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.

Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs (CC BY-NC-ND):
Allows users to copy and distribute the Article, provided this is not done for commercial purposes and further does not permit distribution of the Article if it is changed or edited in any way, and provided the user gives appropriate credit (with a link to the formal publication through the relevant DOI), provides a link to the license, and that the licensor is not represented as endorsing the use made of the work. The full details of the license are available at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/.

Author Rights
For open access publishing, this journal uses a licensing agreement. For the single article published between the years 2015 and 2017, authors retain copyright for the single article; for the single article published between the years 2018 and 2021, authors have transferred their copyright to the Seismological Society of China and Institute of Geophysics, China Earthquake Administration; for articles published since year 2022 authors will retain copyright for the single article. KeAi Communications Co., Ltd. will be granted nonexclusive publishing and distribution rights.

Publishing Schedule
This journal publishes 6 issues per year.

Contact Details
Editorial Office
E-mail: equsci@cea-igp.ac.cn; equsci@126.com.
Tel: +86-10-68729344

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