Challenges for forecasting based on accelerating rates of earthquakes at volcanoes and laboratory analogues

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 185, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 718-723

  Bell, Andrew F ^a   Greenhough, John ^a   Heap, Michael J ^b   Main, Ian G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Creep and deformation; Statistical seismology; Time series analysis; Volcano seismology

Indexed keywords

BEST MODEL; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; ERROR STRUCTURES; GEOPHYSICAL PARAMETERS; INFORMATION CRITERION; KILAUEA; LIKELIHOOD TECHNIQUE; LOCAL INTERACTIONS; MAUNA LOA; MEAN FIELD APPROACH; MEAN FIELD MODELS; MEAN-FIELD; MODEL CHOICE; NONSTATIONARY; PHYSICAL PROCESS; POISSON APPROXIMATIONS; POISSON PROCESS; POWER LAW; POWER LAW MODEL; RETROSPECTIVE ANALYSIS; ROCK FAILURES; STATISTICAL SEISMOLOGY; VARIABLE RATE; VOLCANIC ERUPTIONS; VOLCANO SEISMOLOGY;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CREEP; EARTHQUAKES; FORECASTING; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD; MODELS; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; TIME SERIES; VOLCANOES;

TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

CREEP; DEFORMATION; EARTHQUAKE PRECURSOR; POISSON RATIO; SEISMOLOGY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; VOLCANIC EARTHQUAKE; VOLCANIC ERUPTION;

CATANIA [SICILY]; ETNA; HAWAII [(ISL) HAWAIIAN ISLANDS]; HAWAII [UNITED STATES]; HAWAIIAN ISLANDS; ITALY; KILAUEA; MAUNA LOA; SICILY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 79954625509     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2011.04982.x     Document Type: Article

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