Performance of a seismicity model for earthquakes in Japan (M ≥ 5.0) based on P-wave velocity anomalies

Earth, Planets and Space

Volumn 63, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 289-299

  Imoto, Masajiro ^a  

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

Author keywords

Correlation; Information gain; Japan; Kullback Leibler quantity; P wave velocity structure; Predictive parameters; Seismicity model

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION; EARTHQUAKE EPICENTER; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; MODELING; P-WAVE; SEISMICITY; VELOCITY STRUCTURE;

JAPAN;

EID: 79953865356     PISSN: 13438832     EISSN: 18805981     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5047/eps.2010.06.005     Document Type: Article

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