Testing earthquake prediction methods: «The West Pacific short-term forecast of earthquakes with magnitude MwHRV ≥ 5.8»

Tectonophysics

Volumn 413, Issue 1-2, 2006, Pages 25-31

  Kossobokov, V G ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF EARTHQUAKE PREDICTION THEORY AND MATHEMATICAL GEOPHYSICS   (Russian Federation)

^b INSTITUT DE PHYSIQUE DU GLOBE DE PARIS   (France)

Author keywords

Confidence level; Earthquake prediction; Null hypothesis; Prediction efficiency; Probabilistic forecasting

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; EARTHQUAKE PREDICTION; FORECASTING METHOD;

EID: 30944469013     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2005.10.006     Document Type: Article

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