Simple smoothed seismicity earthquake forecasts for Italy

Annals of Geophysics

Volumn 53, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 99-105

  Zechar, J Douglas ^a,b   Jordan, Thomas H ^c  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; EARTHQUAKE PREDICTION; FORECASTING METHOD; OPTIMIZATION; SEISMICITY;

ITALY;

EID: 78549233344     PISSN: 15935213     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4401/ag-4845     Document Type: Article

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