Testing long-term earthquake forecasts: Likelihood methods and error diagrams

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 177, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 532-542

  Kagan, Yan Y ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Earthquake interaction, forecasting, and prediction; Fractals and multifractals; Probabilistic forecasting; Probability distributions; Spatial analysis; Statistical seismology

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKE MECHANISM; EARTHQUAKE PREDICTION; ERROR ANALYSIS; GAUSSIAN METHOD; LONG RANGE FORECAST; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ANALYSIS; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; PROBABILITY; SEISMICITY; SKEWNESS;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (WEST);

EID: 64849114377     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2008.04064.x     Document Type: Article

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