Next-day earthquake forecasts for the Japan region generated by the ETAS model

Earth, Planets and Space

Volumn 63, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 207-216

  Zhuang, Jiancang ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF STATISTICAL MATHEMATICS   (Japan)

Author keywords

ETAS model; Information score; Point process; Probability torecast; Random simulation

Indexed keywords

AFTERSHOCK; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EARTHQUAKE PREDICTION; FORECASTING METHOD; MODELING; PROBABILITY;

JAPAN;

EID: 79953859243     PISSN: 13438832     EISSN: 18805981     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5047/eps.2010.12.010     Document Type: Article

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