Short-term earthquake forecasting using early aftershock statistics

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 101, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 297-312

  Shebalin, Peter ^a   Narteau, Clément ^b   Holschneider, Matthias ^c   Schorlemmer, Danijel ^d  

^a INSTITUTE OF EARTHQUAKE PREDICTION THEORY AND MATHEMATICAL GEOPHYSICS   (Russian Federation)

^b INSTITUT DE PHYSIQUE DU GLOBE DE PARIS   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

retrospective test and nine month prospective evaluation versus time dependent rate based models; The EAST model

Indexed keywords

CALIFORNIA; CLUSTERING MODEL; COLLABORATORIES; DECAY RATE; EARTHQUAKE FORECAST; EARTHQUAKE FORECASTING; FORECAST MODEL; LOCAL VARIABLES; POWER-LAW; PREDICTIVE POWER; REFERENCE MODELS; SPACE-TIME REGION; TESTING CENTER; THE EAST MODEL; TIME CONSTANTS; TIME STEP; TIME VARYING; TIME-CLUSTERING; TIME-DEPENDENT; TIME-PERIODS;

DECAY (ORGANIC); EARTHQUAKES; MODELS; TIME DELAY;

FORECASTING;

AFTERSHOCK; EARTHQUAKE PREDICTION; ESTIMATION METHOD; FORECASTING METHOD; SEISMICITY;

CALIFORNIA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 79251642227     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: 19433573     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120100119     Document Type: Article

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