Lessons and questions from thirty years of testing the Precursory swarm hypothesis

Pure and Applied Geophysics

Volumn 167, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 629-644

  Rhoades, David A ^a  

^a GNS SCIENCE   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Earthquake prediction; Seismicity patterns; Seismogenesis

Indexed keywords

AFTERSHOCK; EARTHQUAKE CATALOGUE; EARTHQUAKE PRECURSOR; EARTHQUAKE PREDICTION; EARTHQUAKE SWARM; FAULTING; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ANALYSIS; SEISMICITY;

CALIFORNIA; JAPAN; NEW ZEALAND; UNITED STATES;

EID: 77954310067     PISSN: 00334553     EISSN: 14209136     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00024-010-0071-7     Document Type: Article

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