Seismicity-based earthquake forecasting techniques: Ten years of progress

Tectonophysics

Volumn 522-523, Issue , 2012, Pages 89-121

  Tiampo, Kristy F ^a   Shcherbakov, Robert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Earthquake forecasting; Seismic hazard; Seismotectonics; Statistical seismology

Indexed keywords

B VALUE; BROAD SPECTRUM; EARTHQUAKE FAULT; EARTHQUAKE FORECASTING; EARTHQUAKE HAZARD; EARTHQUAKE PROCESS; EPIDEMIC-TYPE AFTERSHOCK SEQUENCES; EVALUATION METHOD; HIGH QUALITY; IMPROVED FORECAST; NULL HYPOTHESIS; PHYSICAL ASSUMPTIONS; PHYSICAL PROCESS; RECENT PROGRESS; SEISMIC DATAS; SEISMIC HAZARDS; SEISMIC RECORDS; SEISMOTECTONICS; SHORT-TERM FORECASTING; STATISTICAL APPROACH; STATISTICAL TECHNIQUES; TEMPORAL SCALE; TIME-DEPENDENT; TIME-PERIODS;

EARTHQUAKES; HAZARDS; MODELS;

FORECASTING;

EARTHQUAKE CATALOGUE; EARTHQUAKE PREDICTION; LONG RANGE FORECAST; PROBABILITY; SEISMIC DATA; SEISMIC HAZARD; SEISMICITY; SEISMOLOGY; SEISMOTECTONICS; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TIME DEPENDENT BEHAVIOR;

EID: 84856409159     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2011.08.019     Document Type: Review

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