Earthquake forecasting in Italy, before and after the Umbria-Marche seismic sequence 1997. A review of earthquake occurrence modeling at different spatio-temporal-magnitude scales

Annals of Geophysics

Volumn 51, Issue 2-3, 2008, Pages 405-416

  Marzocchi, Warner ^a  

^a ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI GEOFISICA E VULCANOLOGIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Earthquake foresting; Earthquake occurrence model; Umbria Marche earthquake

Indexed keywords

CONFERENCE PROCEEDING; EARTHQUAKE EVENT; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; EARTHQUAKE PREDICTION; NUMERICAL MODEL; PROBABILITY; REAL TIME; SEISMOLOGY;

EURASIA; EUROPE; ITALY; MARCHE; SOUTHERN EUROPE; UMBRIA;

EID: 63649096464     PISSN: 15935213     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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