A way to synchronize models with seismic faults for earthquake forecasting: Insights from a simple stochastic model

Tectonophysics

Volumn 424, Issue 3-4, 2006, Pages 319-334

  González, Álvaro ^a   Vázquez Prada, Miguel ^a   Gómez, Javier B ^a   Pacheco, Amalio F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZARAGOZA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Cellular automata; Characteristic earthquakes; Data assimilation; Earthquake prediction; Fault model; Seismic modelling; Synthetic earthquake catalogues

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKE CATALOGUE; EARTHQUAKE PREDICTION; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; FAULT; FORECASTING METHOD; SEISMIC DATA;

EID: 33748428797     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2006.03.039     Document Type: Article

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