Model ensembles for prediction of wenchuan aftershock activity

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 100, Issue 5 B, 2010, Pages 2532-2538

  Smyth, Christine ^a   Mori, Jim ^a   Jiang, Changsheng ^b  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFTERSHOCK SEQUENCE; ENSEMBLE FORECASTS; EPIDEMIC-TYPE AFTERSHOCK SEQUENCES; FORECASTING METHODS; FORECASTING TECHNIQUES; FREQUENCY DISTRIBUTIONS; SHORT PERIODS; WENCHUAN EARTHQUAKE;

EARTHQUAKE EFFECTS;

FORECASTING;

AFTERSHOCK; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; EARTHQUAKE PREDICTION; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; NUMERICAL MODEL; SICHUAN EARTHQUAKE 2008;

EID: 78149478718     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: 19433573     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120090300     Document Type: Article

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