Developing, testing, and communicating earthquake forecasts: Current practices and future directions

L Mizrahi, I Dallo, NJ van der Elst… - Reviews of …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
While deterministically predicting the time and location of earthquakes remains impossible,
earthquake forecasting models can provide estimates of the probabilities of earthquakes …

Seismicity-based earthquake forecasting techniques: Ten years of progress

KF Tiampo, R Shcherbakov - Tectonophysics, 2012 - Elsevier
Earthquake fault systems interact over a broad spectrum of spatial and temporal scales and,
in recent years, studies of the regional seismicity in a variety of regions have produced a …

Analyzing earthquake clustering features by using stochastic reconstruction

J Zhuang, Y Ogata… - Journal of Geophysical …, 2004 - Wiley Online Library
On the basis of the epidemic‐type aftershock sequence (ETAS) model and the thinning
procedure, this paper gives the method about how to classify the earthquakes in a given …

Space–time ETAS models and an improved extension

Y Ogata, J Zhuang - Tectonophysics, 2006 - Elsevier
For sensitive detection of anomalous seismicity such as quiescence and activation in a
given region, we need a suitable statistical reference model that represents a normal …

Comparison of short-term and time-independent earthquake forecast models for southern California

A Helmstetter, YY Kagan… - Bulletin of the …, 2006 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
We have initially developed a time-independent forecast for southern California by
smoothing the locations of magnitude 2 and larger earthquakes. We show that using small …

A common origin for aftershocks, foreshocks, and multiplets

KR Felzer, RE Abercrombie… - Bulletin of the …, 2004 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
We demonstrate that the statistics of earthquake data in the global Centroid Moment Tensor
(CMT) and National Earthquake Information Center (NEIC) catalogs and local California …

Importance of small earthquakes for stress transfers and earthquake triggering

A Helmstetter, YY Kagan… - Journal of Geophysical …, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
We estimate the relative importance of small and large earthquakes for static stress changes
and for earthquake triggering, assuming that earthquakes are triggered by static stress …

Coseismic deformation of the destructive April 6, 2009 L'Aquila earthquake (central Italy) from GPS data

M Anzidei, E Boschi, V Cannelli… - Geophysical …, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
On April 6, 2009, 01: 32: 39 GMT, the city of L'Aquila was struck by a Mw 6.3 earthquake that
killed 307 people, causing severe destruction and ground cracks in a wide area around the …

Next-day earthquake forecasts for the Japan region generated by the ETAS model

J Zhuang - Earth, planets and space, 2011 - Springer
This paper gives the technical solutions of implementing the space-time epidemic-type
aftershock sequence (ETAS) model for short-term (1-day) earthquake forecasts for the all …

High-resolution long-term and short-term earthquake forecasts for California

MJ Werner, A Helmstetter… - Bulletin of the …, 2011 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
We present two models for estimating the probabilities of future earthquakes in California, to
be tested in the Collaboratory for the Study of Earthquake Predictability (CSEP). The first is a …