(NAS Colloquium) Earthquake Prediction:

The Scientific Challenge

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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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