Temporal changes in the cumulative piecewise gradient of a variant of the Gutenberg-Richter relationship, and the imminence of extreme events

Earth-Science Reviews

Volumn 87, Issue 3-4, 2008, Pages 94-112

  Latchman, J L ^a   Morgan, F D O ^b   Aspinall, W P ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES   (Trinidad and Tobago)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

b value; earthquake prediction; global seismology; pattern recognition; piecewise gradient

Indexed keywords

DATA SET; EARTHQUAKE INTENSITY; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; EARTHQUAKE PREDICTION; EXTREME EVENT; GRADIENT ANALYSIS; LOW VELOCITY ZONE; PATTERN RECOGNITION; POWER LAW DISTRIBUTION; SEISMOLOGY; SLOPE; SUMATRA EARTHQUAKE 2004; TEMPORAL VARIATION; TREND ANALYSIS;

ATLANTIC ISLANDS; ATLANTIC OCEAN; CARIBBEAN ISLANDS; LESSER ANTILLES; TOBAGO; TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO;

EID: 41049091695     PISSN: 00128252     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.earscirev.2007.11.001     Document Type: Article

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