Efficient testing of earthquake forecasting models

Acta Geophysica

Volumn 59, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 728-747

  Rhoades, David A ^a   Schorlemmer, Danijel ^b,c   Gerstenberger, Matthew C ^a   Christophersen, Annemarie ^a   Zechar, J Douglas ^d   Imoto, Masajiro ^e  

^a GNS SCIENCE   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

^d ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

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

Author keywords

earthquake forecasting; earthquake likelihood models; statistical seismology

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATE TEST; CENTRAL LIMIT THEOREM; COLLABORATORIES; COMPETING MODELS; COMPUTATIONALLY EFFICIENT; EARTHQUAKE FORECAST; EARTHQUAKE FORECASTING; EXACT TESTS; STATISTICAL SEISMOLOGY; TESTING CENTER;

EARTHQUAKES; TESTING;

FORECASTING;

EARTHQUAKE CATALOGUE; EARTHQUAKE PREDICTION; GEOSTATISTICS; NUMERICAL MODEL; SEISMOLOGY;

EID: 79955591921     PISSN: 18956572     EISSN: 18957455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2478/s11600-011-0013-5     Document Type: Article

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