Real-time forecasts of tomorrow's earthquakes in California

Nature

Volumn 435, Issue 7040, 2005, Pages 328-331

  Gerstenberger, Matthew C ^a   Wiemer, Stefan ^b   Jones, Lucile M ^a   Reasenberg, Paul A ^c  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FORECASTING; HAZARDS; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; SEISMIC PROSPECTING; SEISMOLOGY;

EARTHQUAKE ACTIVITY; EARTHQUAKE FORECASTING; EARTHQUAKE HAZARDS;

EARTHQUAKES;

EARTHQUAKE PREDICTION;

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; EARTHQUAKE; HAZARD; MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TIME; UNITED STATES;

CALIFORNIA; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

EID: 19744366852     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature03622     Document Type: Article

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