Gambling score in earthquake prediction analysis

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 184, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 1445-1454

  Molchan, G ^a,b   Romashkova, L ^a,b  

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

^b ABDUS SALAM INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS   (Italy)

Author keywords

Earthquake interaction, forecasting and prediction; Seismicity and tectonics; Statistical seismology

Indexed keywords

ALARM RATE; COMPONENT PART; EARTHQUAKE PREDICTION; NEW APPROACHES; NON-TRIVIAL; PARAMETRIZATIONS; POINT ESTIMATE; PREDICTION ALGORITHMS; RELATIVE VALUE; SEISMICITY AND TECTONICS; STATISTICAL SEISMOLOGY;

ALARM SYSTEMS; ALGORITHMS; EARTHQUAKES; ESTIMATION; SPATIAL VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; TECTONICS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

FORECASTING;

ALGORITHM; EARTHQUAKE PREDICTION; ESTIMATION METHOD; PARAMETERIZATION; SEISMICITY; SEISMOLOGY; SEISMOTECTONICS;

EID: 79951558856     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2011.04930.x     Document Type: Article

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