Short- and long-term earthquake forecasts for California and Nevada

Pure and Applied Geophysics

Volumn 167, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 685-692

  Kagan, Y Y ^a   Jackson, D D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

California; Earthquake regional forecasts; Time independent and time dependent forecasts

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKE CATALOGUE; EARTHQUAKE EPICENTER; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; EARTHQUAKE PREDICTION; ESTIMATION METHOD; LONG RANGE FORECAST; SEISMICITY;

CALIFORNIA; NEVADA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 77954316129     PISSN: 00334553     EISSN: 14209136     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00024-010-0073-5     Document Type: Article

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