California earthquake forecasts based on smoothed seismicity: Model choices

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 101, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 1422-1430

  Wang, Qi ^a   Jackson, David D ^a   Kagan, Yan Y ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALIFORNIA; DECLUSTERING; EARTHQUAKE FORECAST; FOCAL MECHANISM; HISTORICAL EARTHQUAKES; MAGNITUDE DISTRIBUTION; MODEL CHOICE; OPTIMIZED PARAMETER; RUPTURE SURFACE; SMOOTHING KERNELS; THREE COMPONENT;

EARTHQUAKES; LIBRARIES; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS;

FORECASTING;

EARTHQUAKE CATALOGUE; EARTHQUAKE MECHANISM; EARTHQUAKE PREDICTION; FOCAL MECHANISM; FORECASTING METHOD; SEISMIC ANISOTROPY; SEISMICITY; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

CALIFORNIA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 79957906466     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: 19433573     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120100125     Document Type: Article

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