Operational Earthquake Forecasting: Some Thoughts on Why and How

2010/07/01 by T. H. Jordan, Lucile M. Jones · 3 citations
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paper · doi:10.1785/gssrl.81.4.571

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Abstract

The goal of operational earthquake forecasting is to provide the public with authoritative information on the time dependence of regional seismic hazards.

Citations

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