Predicting the Maximum Earthquake Magnitude from Seismic Data in Israel and Its Neighboring Countries.

This paper explores several data mining and time series analysis methods for predicting the magnitude of the largest seismic event in the next year based on the previously recorded seismic events in the same region. The methods are evaluated on a catalog of 9,042 earthquake events, which took place...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Mark Last, Nitzan Rabinowitz, Gideon Leonard
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2016-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4727930?pdf=render