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(NAS Colloquium) Earthquake Prediction:

The Scientific Challenge

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Size: 128 pages, 8.5 x 11

Publication Year:1996


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Front Matter i-ii  
Earthquake prediction: The scientific challenge 3719-3720 (skim)
Earthquake prediction: The interaction of public policy and science 3721-3725 (skim)
Initiation process of earthquakes and its implications for seismic hazard reduction strategy 3726-3731 (skim)
Intermediate- and long-term earthquake prediction 3732-3739 (skim)
Scale dependence in earthquake phenomena and its relevance to earthquake prediction 3740-3747 (skim)
Intermediate-term earthquake prediction 3748-3755 (skim)
A selective phenomenology of the seismicity of Southern California 3756-3763 (skim)
The repetition of large-earthquake ruptures 3764-3771 (skim)
Hypothesis testing and earthquake prediction 3772-3775 (skim)
What electrical measurements can say about changes in fault systems 3776-3780 (skim)
Geochemical challenge to earthquake prediction 3781-3786 (skim)
Implications of fault constitutive properties for earthquake prediction 3787-3794 (skim)
Nonuniformity of the constitutive law parameters for shear rupture and quasistatic nucleation to dynamic rupture: A physical model of earthquake generation processes 3795-3802 (skim)
Rock friction and its implications for earthquake prediction examined via models of Parkfield earthquakes 3803-3810 (skim)
Slip complexity in earthquake fault models 3811-3818 (skim)
Dynamic friction and the origin of the complexity of earthquake sources 3819-3824 (skim)
Slip complexity in dynamic models of earthquake faults 3825-3829 (skim)
The organization of seismicity on fault networks 3830-3837 (skim)
Geometric incompatibility in a fault system 3838-3842 (skim)

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