Testing an earthquake prediction algorithm

Pure and Applied Geophysics

Volumn 149, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 219-232

  Kossobokov, Vladimir G ^a   Healy, John H ^b   Dewey, James W ^c  

^a RUSSIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (Russian Federation)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^c DENVER FEDERAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Intermediate term earthquake prediction; Null hypothesis; Prediction algorithms; Testing and evaluating hypothesis

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; EARTHQUAKE PREDICTION; M8 ALGORITHM;

EID: 0030921496     PISSN: 00334553     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00945168     Document Type: Article

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