Global risk of big earthquakes has not recently increased

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 109, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 717-721

  Shearer, Peter M ^a   Stark, Philip B ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Earthquake statistics; Seismology

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; EARTHQUAKE; GLOBAL CHANGE; HAZARD; MAGNITUDE ESTIMATION METHOD; MONTE CARLO METHOD; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; EARTHQUAKES; INTERNATIONALITY; MONTE CARLO METHOD; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; RISK FACTORS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84856403017     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1118525109     Document Type: Article

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