GPS monitoring and earthquake prediction: A success story towards a useful integration

Tectonophysics

Volumn 465, Issue 1-4, 2009, Pages 177-189

  Borghi, Alessandra ^a   Aoudia, Abdelkrim ^b   Riva, Riccardo E M ^c   Barzaghi, Riccardo ^a  

^a POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

^b ABDUS SALAM INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS   (Italy)

^c DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Bayesian analysis; Earthquake prediction; GPS geodesy; Stress evolution

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE FAULTS; BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; BAYESIAN APPROACHES; CO-SEISMIC DEFORMATIONS; DINARIDES; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDES; EARTHQUAKE PREDICTION; FAULT SLIPS; GPS GEODESY; GPS MONITORING; LONG LASTINGS; NEAR FIELDS; PHYSICAL MODELS; PREDICTION ALGORITHMS; SLOVENIA; SLOW MOTIONS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCES; STRAIN ACCELERATIONS; STRESS EVOLUTION; TIME-DEPENDENT DEFORMATIONS; TIMES SERIES;

ACCELERATION; BAYESIAN NETWORKS; DEFORMATION; EXPERIMENTS; GEODESY; GEODETIC SATELLITES; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; INTERNET PROTOCOLS; LANDFORMS; RAPID THERMAL ANNEALING; ROCK MECHANICS; STRAIN RATE; STRESSES; SURVEYING; TIME SERIES; TRANSIENTS;

EARTHQUAKES;

ACTIVE FAULT; ALGORITHM; BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; COSEISMIC PROCESS; DEFORMATION MECHANISM; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; EARTHQUAKE PREDICTION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FORECASTING METHOD; GEODESY; GPS; INTEGRATED APPROACH; LITHOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; MONITORING SYSTEM; STRESS ANALYSIS; TIME SERIES;

ALPS; DINARIC ALPS; EASTERN ALPS; EURASIA; EUROPE; KRN; SLOVENIA; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 60749124873     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2008.11.022     Document Type: Article

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