First Results of the Regional Earthquake Likelihood Models Experiment

Pure and Applied Geophysics

Volumn 167, Issue 8-9, 2010, Pages 859-876

  Schorlemmer, Danijel ^a   Zechar, J Douglas ^a,b   Werner, Maximilian J ^c   Field, Edward H ^d   Jackson, David D ^e   Jordan, Thomas H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b International Research Institute for Climate and Society   (United States)

^c ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^d U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Earthquake forecasting and testing; Earthquake predictability; Earthquake statistics; Seismic hazard; Statistical seismology

Indexed keywords

CALIFORNIA; COLLABORATORIES; CURRENT TEST; EARTHQUAKE FORECASTING AND TESTING; EARTHQUAKE PREDICTION; HISTORICAL SEISMICITY; OBSERVED SAMPLES; PERFORMANCE EVALUATION; PRIMARY OBJECTIVE; RESEARCH GROUPS; SEISMIC HAZARDS; STATISTICAL SEISMOLOGY; TESTING CENTER; TIME INVARIANTS; WORKING GROUPS;

EARTHQUAKES; EXPERIMENTS; RISK ASSESSMENT;

FORECASTING;

EARTHQUAKE PREDICTION; FORECASTING METHOD; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ANALYSIS; MODELING; SEISMIC HAZARD; SEISMOLOGY;

CALIFORNIA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 77950144256     PISSN: 00334553     EISSN: 14209136     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00024-010-0081-5     Document Type: Article

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