Whole Earth high-resolution earthquake forecasts

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 190, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 677-686

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Dynamics: seismotectonics; Earthquake interaction, forecasting, and prediction; Probabilistic forecasting; Probability distributions; Seismicity and tectonics, Statistical seismology

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE AREA; ADAPTIVE KERNELS; CELL SIZE; DISCRETIZATION EFFECTS; EARTHQUAKE FORECAST; EFFECTIVE WIDTH; ERROR DIAGRAMS; GLOBAL REGIONS; HIGH RESOLUTION; LIKELIHOOD SCORE; LONG-TERM FORECAST; OMORI'S LAW; PER UNIT; POINT DENSITY; PROBABILISTIC FORECASTING; SEISMOTECTONICS; SHORT-TERM FORECASTS; SMOOTHING KERNELS; TEMPORAL CLUSTERING;

EARTHQUAKES; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; TECTONICS;

FORECASTING;

EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; EARTHQUAKE PREDICTION; FORECASTING METHOD; PROBABILITY; SEISMICITY; SEISMOLOGY; SEISMOTECTONICS;

EID: 84862176141     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2012.05521.x     Document Type: Article

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