Forecasting the locations of future large earthquakes: An analysis and verification

Pure and Applied Geophysics

Volumn 167, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 743-749

  Shcherbakov, Robert ^a   Turcotte, Donald L ^b   Rundle, John B ^b   Tiampo, Kristy F ^a   Holliday, James R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Earthquake forecasting; Error diagram; Forecast verification; ROC diagram

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; EARTHQUAKE PREDICTION; EARTHQUAKE RECURRENCE; FORECASTING METHOD; MICROEARTHQUAKE; OPTIMIZATION; PALEOSEISMICITY;

EID: 77954311005     PISSN: 00334553     EISSN: 14209136     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00024-010-0069-1     Document Type: Article

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