Adaptively smoothed seismicity earthquake forecasts for Italy

Annals of Geophysics

Volumn 53, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 107-116

  Werner, Maximilian J ^a   Helmstetter, Agnès ^b   Jackson, David D ^c   Kagan, Yan Y ^c   Wiemer, Stefan ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIV GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKE CATALOGUE; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; EARTHQUAKE PREDICTION; ESTIMATION METHOD; FORECASTING METHOD; MODELING; SEISMICITY; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

ITALY;

EID: 78549268148     PISSN: 15935213     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4401/ag-4839     Document Type: Article

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