Pattern Informatics approach to earthquake forecasting in 3D

Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience

Volumn 22, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 1569-1592

  Toya, Y ^a   Tiampo, K F ^a   Rundle, J B ^b   Chen, Chien Chih ^c   Li, Hsien Chi ^c   Klein, W ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c NATIONAL CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^d Boston University   (United States)

Author keywords

Earthquake forecasting; Effective ergodicity; Pattern Informatics; Seismicity rate

Indexed keywords

FORECASTING; INFORMATICS; VECTOR SPACES;

EARTHQUAKE FORECASTING; ERGODICITY; FORECASTING PERFORMANCE; NATURAL SEISMICITY; SEISMIC ACTIVATION; SEISMICITY PATTERN; SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL SCALE; VERTICAL DIMENSIONS;

EARTHQUAKES;

EID: 77955478349     PISSN: 15320626     EISSN: 15320634     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cpe.1531     Document Type: Conference Paper

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