A summary of previous Working Groups on California Earthquake Probabilities

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 97, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 1033-1053

  Field, Edward H ^a  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBABILITY; TECTONICS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EARTHQUAKE FORECAST; FAULT SEGMENT; TIME-DEPENDENT ANALYSIS;

EARTHQUAKE EFFECTS;

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; EARTHQUAKE EVENT; EARTHQUAKE PREDICTION; EARTHQUAKE RECURRENCE; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; ESTIMATION METHOD; FAULT; FORECASTING METHOD; NUMERICAL MODEL; PROBABILITY;

EID: 34548143381     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120060048     Document Type: Review

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