Predictability study on the aftershock sequence following the 2011 Tohoku-Oki, Japan, earthquake: First results

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 191, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 653-658

  Nanjo, K Z ^a,b   Tsuruoka, H ^a   Yokoi, S ^a   Ogata, Y ^c   Falcone, G ^d   Hirata, N ^a   Ishigaki, Y ^e   Jordan, T H ^f   Kasahara, K ^a   Obara, K ^a   Schorlemmer, D ^f,g   Shiomi, K ^b   Zhuang, J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR EARTH SCIENCE AND DISASTER PREVENTION   (Japan)

^c INSTITUTE OF STATISTICAL MATHEMATICS   (Japan)

^d ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI GEOFISICA E VULCANOLOGIA   (Italy)

^e JAPAN METEOROLOGICAL AGENCY   (Japan)

^f UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^g GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

Author keywords

Asia; Computational seismology; Probabilistic forecasting; Seismicity and tectonics; Statistical seismology; Time series analysis

Indexed keywords

AFTERSHOCK SEQUENCE; ASIA; COLLABORATORIES; DATA QUALITY; EARTHQUAKE FORECASTING; EARTHQUAKE PRECURSORS; GAINING INSIGHTS; GLOBAL PROJECTS; JAPAN METEOROLOGICAL AGENCIES; PROBABILISTIC FORECASTING; TESTING METHOD; TIME-DEPENDENT;

FORECASTING; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; TECTONICS;

EARTHQUAKES;

AFTERSHOCK; EARTHQUAKE CATALOGUE; EARTHQUAKE MECHANISM; EARTHQUAKE PRECURSOR; EARTHQUAKE PREDICTION; PROBABILITY; SEISMICITY; SEISMOLOGY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TOHOKU EARTHQUAKE 2011;

HONSHU; JAPAN; TOHOKU;

EID: 84867395974     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2012.05626.x     Document Type: Article

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