Forecasting volcanic eruptions and other material failure phenomena: An evaluation of the failure forecast method

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 38, Issue 15, 2011, Pages

  Bell, Andrew F ^a   Naylor, Mark ^a   Heap, Michael J ^b   Main, Ian G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXPERIMENTS; STRAIN RATE; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; VOLCANOES;

ERROR DISTRIBUTIONS; ERROR STRUCTURES; FAILURE TIME; FORECAST METHOD; GENERALIZED LINEAR MODEL; MATERIAL FAILURES; POWER-LAW; RETROSPECTIVE ANALYSIS; SYNTHETIC AND REAL DATA; THEORETICAL MODELS; VOLCANIC ERUPTIONS;

FORECASTING;

BRITTLE DEFORMATION; BRITTLE MEDIUM; CREEP; ERROR ANALYSIS; LANDSLIDE; POWER LAW; THEORETICAL STUDY; VOLCANIC EARTHQUAKE; VOLCANIC ERUPTION;

EID: 80051525022     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011GL048155     Document Type: Article

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