Completeness of the Mainland China earthquake catalog and implications for the setup of the China earthquake forecast testing center

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 103, Issue 2 A, 2013, Pages 845-859

  Mignan, A ^a   Jiang, C ^b   Zechar, J D ^a,d   Wiemer, S ^a   Wu, Z ^b   Huang, Z ^c  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^c CHINA EARTHQUAKE NETWORKS CENTER   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLLABORATORIES; EARTHQUAKE CATALOGS; EARTHQUAKE FORECAST; EARTHQUAKE NETWORKS; FORECAST TESTING; FREQUENCY-MAGNITUDE DISTRIBUTION; PRIOR INFORMATION; SPATIO-TEMPORAL VARIATION;

EXPERIMENTS; FORECASTING; TECTONICS;

EARTHQUAKES;

BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; EARTHQUAKE CATALOGUE; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; EARTHQUAKE PREDICTION; SEISMICITY; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

CHINA;

EID: 84875439811     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: 19433573     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120120052     Document Type: Article

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