Accounting for prediction uncertainty when inferring subsurface fault slip

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 197, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 464-482

  Duputel, Zacharie ^a,c   Agram, Piyush S ^a,d   Simons, Mark ^a   Minson, Sarah E ^a   Beck, James L ^b  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b California Institute of Technology   (United States)

^c UMR 7063   (France)

^d CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Earthquake source observations; Inverse theory; Probability distributions

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKE SOURCE MODELS; EARTHQUAKE SOURCE OBSERVATIONS; INVERSE THEORY; OBSERVATIONAL ERRORS; PERTURBATION APPROACH; PREDICTION UNCERTAINTY; QUASISTATIC APPROXIMATIONS; SOURCES OF UNCERTAINTY;

COVARIANCE MATRIX; EARTHQUAKES; ERRORS; FAULT SLIPS; FORECASTING; INVERSE PROBLEMS; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; REACTOR CORES; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

STOCHASTIC MODELS;

EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; ERROR ANALYSIS; FAULT SLIP; INVERSE PROBLEM; PREDICTION; PROBABILITY; SEISMIC SOURCE; THEORETICAL STUDY;

EID: 84897585380     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/gji/ggt517     Document Type: Article

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