Statistical discrimination of foreshocks from other earthquake clusters

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 127, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 17-30

  Ogata, Yosihiko ^a   Utsu, Tokuji ^a   Katsura, Koichi ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF STATISTICAL MATHEMATICS   (Japan)

Author keywords

Aftershocks; Earthquake prediction; Foreshocks; Hypocentre; Seismicity; Statistical methods

Indexed keywords

AFTERSHOCK; EARTHQUAKE PREDICTION; FORESHOCK; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0030431649     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.1996.tb01531.x     Document Type: Article

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