Statistical evaluation of the VAN method using the historic earthquake catalog in Greece

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 23, Issue 11, 1996, Pages 1425-1428

  Aceves, Richard L ^a   Park, Stephen K ^a   Strauss, David J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; EARTHQUAKES; FORECASTING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; STATISTICAL TESTS;

ADAPTIVE RANDOM MODEL; AFTERSHOCK MODEL; AFTERSHOCKS; EARTHQUAKE CATALOG; GUTENBERG-RICHTER RELATIONSHIP; PREDICTION RATE; STATISTICAL EVALUATION; VAROTSOS-ALEXOPOULOS-NOMICOS METHOD;

SEISMOLOGY;

EID: 0030143146     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/96GL01478     Document Type: Article

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