Significant improvements of the space-time ETAS model for forecasting of accurate baseline seismicity

Earth, Planets and Space

Volumn 63, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 217-229

  Ogata, Yosihiko ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF STATISTICAL MATHEMATICS   (Japan)

Author keywords

Anisotropic clusters; B values; Bayesian method; Delaunay tessellation; Location dependent parameters; Probability forecasting

Indexed keywords

AFTERSHOCK; BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; EARTHQUAKE PREDICTION; FORECASTING METHOD; PROBABILITY; SEISMICITY;

EID: 79953837909     PISSN: 13438832     EISSN: 18805981     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5047/eps.2010.09.001     Document Type: Article

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