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Intermediate-term prediction of occurrence times of strong earthquakes

Nature volume 335, pages 690–694 (1988)Cite this article

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Pattern recognition procedures for infrequent events are adapted to the problem of identifying patterns of clustering of small- and intermediate-scale seismicity before large earthquakes. Identification procedures derived from analysis of large California and Nevada earthquakes yield a high success rate when applied to other parts of the world.

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  1. Institute of the Physics of the Earth, Academy of Sciences of the USSR, Moscow, USSR

    V. I. Keilis-Borok & I. M. Rotwain

  2. Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics, University of California, Los Angeles, California, 90024, USA

    L. Knopoff

  3. Seismological Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, 91125, USA

    C. R. Allen

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Keilis-Borok, V., Knopoff, L., Rotwain, I. et al. Intermediate-term prediction of occurrence times of strong earthquakes. Nature 335, 690–694 (1988). https://doi.org/10.1038/335690a0

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