The assumption of poisson seismic-rate variability in CSEP/RELM experiments

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 100, Issue 5 A, 2010, Pages 2293-2300

  Lombardi, A M ^a   Marzocchi, W ^a  

^a ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI GEOFISICA E VULCANOLOGIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLLABORATORIES; EPIDEMIC-TYPE AFTERSHOCK SEQUENCES; EVALUATION PROCESS; LIKELIHOOD SCORE; POISSON PROCESS; POISSON UNCERTAINTY; TESTING PROCEDURE; TIME AND SPACE PERFORMANCE;

EARTHQUAKES; FORECASTING; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; STATISTICAL TESTS;

EXPERIMENTS;

AFTERSHOCK; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; EARTHQUAKE PREDICTION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FORECASTING METHOD; MODELING; SEISMICITY;

EID: 77957731139     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120100012     Document Type: Article

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