Real time earthquake forecasting in Italy

Tectonophysics

Volumn 470, Issue 3-4, 2009, Pages 214-223

  Murru, M ^a   Console, R ^a   Falcone, G ^a,b  

^a ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI GEOFISICA E VULCANOLOGIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MESSINA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Earthquake forecasting; Epidemic model; Error diagrams; Hypothesis testing; Real time forecasting

Indexed keywords

DATA SETS; EARTHQUAKE DATUM; EARTHQUAKE FORECASTING; EARTHQUAKE HAZARDS; EPIDEMIC MODEL; GROUND-SHAKING; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; MODIFIED MERCALLI INTENSITIES; PROBABILITY OF OCCURRENCES; PUBLIC INFORMATIONS; REAL TIME; REAL TIME FORECASTING; REAL-TIME DATUM; RELATIVE OPERATING CHARACTERISTICS; SEISMIC HAZARDS; SHORT-TERM FORECASTING; STATISTICAL TOOLS; TIME DEPENDENTS;

EPIDEMIOLOGY; FORECASTING; GRAPHIC METHODS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; RISK ASSESSMENT;

EARTHQUAKES;

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DECISION MAKING; EARTHQUAKE EVENT; EARTHQUAKE INTENSITY; EARTHQUAKE PREDICTION; ERROR ANALYSIS; FORECASTING METHOD; GEODESY; GROUND MOTION; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; MAPPING; MODELING; PROBABILITY; REAL TIME; SEISMOTECTONICS;

EURASIA; EUROPE; ITALY; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 67349224213     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2008.09.010     Document Type: Article

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