Long-range predictability in physics-based synthetic earthquake catalogues

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 185, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 1037-1048

  Rhoades, D A ^a   Robinson, R ^a   Gerstenberger, M C ^a  

^a GNS SCIENCE   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Computational seismology; Earthquake interaction, forecasting, and prediction; Fractures and faults; Probabilistic forecasting; Statistical seismology

Indexed keywords

CALIFORNIA; COMPUTATIONAL SEISMOLOGY; FAULT GEOMETRY; FAULT NETWORKS; INDIVIDUAL CELLS; LONG-RANGE FORECASTING; PHYSICAL PROCESS; PHYSICS-BASED; PROBABILISTIC FORECASTING; SCALING PARAMETER; SCALING RELATIONS; STATISTICAL SEISMOLOGY; STRESS EVOLUTION; STRESS INTERACTION; SYNTHETIC SEISMICITY MODEL;

EARTHQUAKES; FRACTURE; LIBRARIES;

FORECASTING;

EARTHQUAKE CATALOGUE; EARTHQUAKE PREDICTION; FAULT; FORECASTING METHOD; FRACTURE; PROBABILITY; SEISMICITY; SEISMOLOGY;

CALIFORNIA; JAPAN; UNITED STATES;

EID: 79954612441     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2011.04993.x     Document Type: Article

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