• Earthquake prediction is a branch of the science of seismology concerned with the specification of the time, location, and magnitude of future earthquakes...
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    Efforts to manage earthquake risks involve prediction, forecasting, and preparedness, including seismic retrofitting and earthquake engineering to design...
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    The 1976 Tangshan earthquake (Chinese: 唐山大地震; pinyin: Tángshān dà dìzhèn; lit. 'Great Tangshan earthquake') was a Mw 7.6 earthquake that hit the region...
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  • damaging earthquakes in a given area over years or decades. While forecasting is usually considered to be a type of prediction, earthquake forecasting...
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  • had been questioned to whether it was a scientific earthquake prediction or a fluke. The prediction was based mainly on the pronounced foreshock sequence...
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  • Foreshock (category Types of earthquake)
    1038/srep04099. PMC 3924212. PMID 24526224. Ludwin, R. (16 September 2004). "Earthquake Prediction". The Pacific Northwest Seismic Network. Archived from the original...
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    called earthquake prediction. Various attempts have been made by seismologists and others to create effective systems for precise earthquake predictions, including...
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  • where Coulomb stress had dropped. Another successful case study of earthquake prediction occurred along Turkey's North Anatolian fault system. From 1939...
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  • "Characterization of the Heterogeneous Source Model of Intraslab Earthquakes Toward Strong Ground Motion Prediction". Pure and Applied Geophysics. 168 (1–2): 117–124...
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    This reached its height with the successful prediction of the 1975 Haicheng earthquake. This earthquake had a prominent series of foreshocks and authorities...
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    earthquake would strike the Parkfield area between 1985 and 1993. This was known as the Parkfield Earthquake Prediction and the Parkfield Earthquake Experiment...
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    kilometers (80.45 mi). The West Fault is capable of producing large scale earthquakes on its active phases with a magnitude of 7 or higher. East Valley Fault...
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    future. Earthquake prediction is not yet established science; there was no consensus within the scientific community that earthquake "prediction" is possible...
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    (Switzerland) since March 2006. The group has tackled the problem of earthquake and rupture prediction since the mid-90s within the broader physical concept of critical...
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    founder, and Director Emeritus, of the International Institute of Earthquake Prediction Theory and Mathematical Geophysics, Moscow. He was elected to the...
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    where an earthquake or an underground explosion originates. The primary purpose of a seismometer is to locate the initiating points of earthquake epicenters...
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    The Coordinating Committee for Earthquake Prediction (CCEP) (Japanese: 地震予知連絡会, Jishin Yochi Renraku-kai) in Japan was founded in April 1969, as part...
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  • 2010, p. 165. In seismology an earthquake prediction must specify the time, location, and magnitude of a future earthquake with sufficient specificity that...
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  • unexpected rise in the number of aftershocks. Earthquake light Earthquake prediction Goines, David Lance. "Earthquake Weather". Robinson, Russell (14 November...
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    Tōnankai earthquake Coordinating Committee for Earthquake Prediction Kanto earthquakes List of earthquakes in Japan Nankai megathrust earthquakes Andrew...
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  • Megathrust earthquakes occur at convergent plate boundaries, where one tectonic plate is forced underneath another. The earthquakes are caused by slip...
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    Arkansas and Missouri Earthquake prediction – Branch of seismology Eastern Tennessee Seismic Zone Guy-Greenbrier earthquake swarm – Earthquake swarm in Arkansas...
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    Prediction of volcanic activity, and volcanic eruption forecasting, is an interdisciplinary monitoring and research effort to predict the time and severity...
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    "Characterization of the Heterogeneous Source Model of Intraslab Earthquakes Toward Strong Ground Motion Prediction". Pure and Applied Geophysics. 168 (1–2): 117–124...
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    notifying adjoining regions of a substantial earthquake once one begins. This is not the same as earthquake prediction, which is currently not capable of producing...
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  • the effects of an earthquake at a given location. This is in contrast with the seismic magnitude usually reported for an earthquake. Magnitude scales...
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  • The Chi-Chi earthquake (later also known as the Jiji earthquake or the great earthquake of September 21), was a 7.3 ML or 7.7 Mw earthquake which occurred...
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  • Hypocenter (redirect from Earthquake focus)
    seismology, a hypocenter of an earthquake is its point of origin below ground; a synonym is the focus of an earthquake. Generally, the terms ground zero...
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    in order to produce a quick prediction of a tsunami's height and thus to provide a timely warning, the initial earthquake and tsunami warning that was...
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  • 2018 album I Am > I Was Accelerating seismic moment release, in earthquake prediction Age-specific mortality rate or age-standardised mortality rate (ASMR)...
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