High-resolution long-term and short-term earthquake forecasts for California

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 101, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 1630-1648

  Werner, Maximilian J ^a   Helmstetter, Agnès ^b   Jackson, David D ^c   Kagan, Yan Y ^c  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITÉ GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALIFORNIA; COLLABORATORIES; EARTHQUAKE FORECAST; EPIDEMIC-TYPE AFTERSHOCK SEQUENCES; HIGH RESOLUTION; KERNEL MODELS; MAGNITUDE DISTRIBUTION; NEGATIVE BINOMIAL DISTRIBUTION; PARAMETER VALUES; SPATIAL DENSITIES; TIME-DEPENDENT;

EARTHQUAKE EFFECTS; ESTIMATION; POISSON DISTRIBUTION;

FORECASTING;

AFTERSHOCK; EARTHQUAKE EPICENTER; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; EARTHQUAKE PREDICTION; EARTHQUAKE TRIGGER; FORECASTING METHOD; PROBABILITY; SEISMICITY; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

CALIFORNIA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 79957911663     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: 19433573     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120090340     Document Type: Article

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