Conventional N-, L-, and R-tests of earthquake forecasting models without simulated catalogs

Earth, Planets and Space

Volumn 63, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 275-287

  Imoto, Masajiro ^a   Rhoades, David A ^b   Fujiwara, Hiroyuki ^a   Yamamoto, Naoko ^a  

^a NATIONAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR EARTH SCIENCE AND DISASTER PREVENTION   (Japan)

^b GNS SCIENCE   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

CSEP project; N ,L ,and R scores; Probabilistic prediction; Seismicity models; Simulated catalogs; Uncertainties in earthquake source parameters

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKE CATALOGUE; EARTHQUAKE HYPOCENTER; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; EARTHQUAKE PREDICTION; FORECASTING METHOD; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; PROBABILITY; SEISMICITY; SOURCE PARAMETERS;

HONSHU; JAPAN; KANTO;

EID: 79953839886     PISSN: 13438832     EISSN: 18805981     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5047/eps.2010.08.007     Document Type: Article

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