Risk and return: Evaluating Reverse Tracing of Precursors earthquake predictions

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 182, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 1319-1326

  Zechar, J Douglas ^a,b   Zhuang, Jiancang ^c  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University   (United States)

^c INSTITUTE OF STATISTICAL MATHEMATICS   (Japan)

Author keywords

Earthquake interaction, forecasting, and prediction; Probabilistic forecasting; Probability distributions; Seismicity and tectonics; Statistical seismology

Indexed keywords

CALIFORNIA; EARTHQUAKE PREDICTION; EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN; NEWS AGENCIES; PATTERN RECOGNITION ALGORITHMS; PRIOR PROBABILITY; PROBABILISTIC FORECASTING; PROSPECTIVE APPLICATIONS; REFERENCE MODELS; SEISMICITY AND TECTONICS; SPATIAL EXTENT; STATISTICAL SEISMOLOGY; TIME AND SPACE;

ALARM SYSTEMS; ALGORITHMS; EARTHQUAKES; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; TECTONICS;

FORECASTING;

ALGORITHM; EARTHQUAKE CATALOGUE; EARTHQUAKE PRECURSOR; EARTHQUAKE PREDICTION; FORECASTING METHOD; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; SEISMICITY;

CALIFORNIA; ITALY; JAPAN; MEDITERRANEAN REGION; NEVADA; OREGON; UNITED STATES;

EID: 77955744942     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2010.04666.x     Document Type: Article

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