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Papers from a National Academy of Sciences Colloquium on Earthquake Prediction: The Scientific Challenge

 

 

Earthquake prediction: The scientific challenge
L.Knopoff

 

3719–3720

 

 

Earthquake prediction: The interaction of public policy and science
Lucile M.Jones

 

3721–3725

 

 

Initiation process of earthquakes and its implications for seismic hazard reduction strategy
Hiroo Kanamori

 

3726–3731

 

 

Intermediate- and long-term earthquake prediction
Lynn R.Sykes

 

3732–3739

 

 

Scale dependence in earthquake phenomena and its relevance to earthquake prediction
Keiiti Aki

 

3740–3747

 

 

Intermediate-term earthquake prediction
V.I. Keilis-Borok

 

3748–3755

 

 

A selective phenomenology of the seismicity of Southern California
L.Knopoff

 

3756–3763

 

 

The repetition of large-earthquake ruptures
Kerry Sieh

 

3764–3771

 

 

Hypothesis testing and earthquake prediction
David D.Jackson

 

3772–3775

 

 

What electrical measurements can say about changes in fault systems
Theodore R.Madden and Randall L.Mackie

 

3776–3780

 

 

Geochemical challenge to earthquake prediction
Hiroshi Wakita

 

3781–3786

 

 

Implications of fault constitutive properties for earthquake prediction
James H.Dieterich and Brian Kilgore

 

3787–3794

 

 

Nonuniformity of the constitutive law parameters for shear rupture and quasistatic nucleation to dynamic rupture: A physical model of earthquake generation processes
Mitiyasu Ohnaka

 

3795–3802

 

 

Rock friction and its implications for earthquake prediction examined via models of Parkfield earthquakes
Terry E.Tullis

 

3803–3810

 

 

Slip complexity in earthquake fault models
James R.Rice and Yehuda Ben-Zion

 

3811–3818

Suggested Citation:"Front Matter." National Academy of Sciences. 1996. (NAS Colloquium) Earthquake Prediction: The Scientific Challenge. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/5709.
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Dynamic friction and the origin of the complexity of earthquake sources
Raúl Madariaga and Alain Cochard

 

3819–3824

 

 

Slip complexity in dynamic models of earthquake faults
J.S.Langer, J.M.Carlson, Christopher R.Myers, and Bruce E.Shaw

 

3825–3829

 

 

The organization of seismicity on fault networks
L.Knopoff

 

3830–3837

 

 

GEOPHYSICS

 

 

 

 

Geometric incompatibility in a fault system
Andrei Gabrielov, Vladimir Keilis-Borok, and David D.Jackson

 

3838–3842

Suggested Citation:"Front Matter." National Academy of Sciences. 1996. (NAS Colloquium) Earthquake Prediction: The Scientific Challenge. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/5709.
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