A simulation-based approach to forecasting the next great San Francisco earthquake

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 102, Issue 43, 2005, Pages 15363-15367

  Rundle, J B ^a,b   Rundle, P B ^a   Donnellan, A ^b   Turcotte, D L ^a   Shcherbakov, R ^a   Li, P ^b   Malamud, B D ^c   Grant, L B ^d   Fox, G C ^e   McLeod, D ^f   Yakovlev, G ^a   Parker, J ^b   Klein, W ^g   Tiampo, K F ^h  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f Boston University ^*  (United States)

^g Boston University   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Hazards; Weilbull distribution

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DISASTER; EARTHQUAKE; FIRE; FORECASTING; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; UNITED STATES; VIRTUAL REALITY;

FORECASTING; NATURAL DISASTERS; PROBABILITY; SAN FRANCISCO;

EID: 27344450821     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0507528102     Document Type: Article

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