Criticality in earthquakes. Good or bad for prediction?

Tectonophysics

Volumn 485, Issue 1-4, 2010, Pages 321-326

  Ramos, Osvanny ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

^b PSL RESEARCH UNIVERSITY   (France)

Author keywords

Cellular automata; Critical phenomena; Modelization; Precursors; Prediction

Indexed keywords

CELLULAR AUTOMATA; EARTHQUAKES; FORECASTING;

CORRELATION FUNCTION; CRITICAL PHENOMENON; CRITICAL PROPERTIES; MODELIZATION; OLAMI-FEDER-CHRISTENSEN MODELS; PRECURSORS; SPATIAL AUTOCORRELATIONS; SPATIAL CORRELATIONS;

AUTOCORRELATION;

AFTERSHOCK; AUTOCORRELATION; AVALANCHE; CATASTROPHIC EVENT; CELLULAR AUTOMATON; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CORRELATION; EARTHQUAKE MECHANISM; EARTHQUAKE PREDICTION; MONITORING SYSTEM; NUMERICAL MODEL; POWER LAW; SPATIAL VARIATION; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

EID: 77950529401     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2009.11.007     Document Type: Article

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