Forecasting italian seismicity through a spatio-temporal physical model: Importance of considering time-dependency and reliability of the forecast

Annals of Geophysics

Volumn 53, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 129-140

  Chan, Chung Han ^a   Sørensen, Mathilde B ^a   Stromeyer, Dietrich ^a   Grünthal, Gottfried ^a   Heidbach, Oliver ^a   Hakimhashemi, Amir ^a   Catalli, Flaminia ^a  

^a GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKE CATALOGUE; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; EARTHQUAKE PREDICTION; FORECASTING METHOD; NUMERICAL MODEL; RELIABILITY ANALYSIS; SEISMICITY; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

ITALY;

EID: 78549251405     PISSN: 15935213     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4401/ag-4761     Document Type: Article

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