Forecasting characteristic earthquakes in a minimalist model

Nonlinear Processes in Geophysics

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 565-571

  Vazquez Prada M ^a   Gonzalez A ^a   Gomez J B ^a   Pacheco, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZARAGOZA   (Spain)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKE PREDICTION; FORECASTING METHOD; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0347542534     PISSN: 10235809     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/npg-10-565-2003     Document Type: Article

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