Correlation between the parameters of the aftershock rate equation: Implications for the forecasting of future sequences

Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors

Volumn 156, Issue 1-2, 2006, Pages 41-58

  Gasperini, Paolo ^a   Lolli, Barbara ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Aftershocks forecasting; Gutenberg Richter law; Omori law; Parameters correlation

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION METHODS; EARTHQUAKE EFFECTS; FORECASTING; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; SHOCK WAVES;

AFTERSHOCK FORECASTING; AFTERSHOCK RATE EQUATION; GUTENBERG-RICHTER LAW; OMORI'S LAW; PARAMETERS CORRELATION;

EARTHQUAKES;

AFTERSHOCK; CORRELATION; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; FORECASTING METHOD; SEISMIC HAZARD;

EID: 33646582020     PISSN: 00319201     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pepi.2006.01.005     Document Type: Article

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