Prediction of extreme events: Fundamentals and prerequisites of verification

RUSSIAN JOURNAL OF EARTH SCIENCES VOL. 10, ES2005, doi:10.2205/2007ES000251, 2008

Prediction of extreme events: Fundamentals and prerequisites of verification

V. G. Kossobokov^{1, 2}, and A. A. Soloviev¹

¹International Institute of Earthquake Prediction Theory and Mathematical Geophysics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
²Institute de Physique du Globe de Paris, Paris, France

Received 28 January 2008; accepted 9 February 2008; published 29 February 2008.

Keywords: seismology, earthquake prediction, model and theoretical seismicity.

Index Terms: 0500 Computational Geophysics; 1721 History of Geophysics: Nonlinear geophysics; 7223 Seismology: Earthquake interaction, forecasting, and prediction; 7290 Seismology: Computational seismology.

Citation: Kossobokov, V. G., and A. A. Soloviev (2008), Prediction of extreme events: Fundamentals and prerequisites of verification, Russ. J. Earth Sci., 10, ES2005, doi:10.2205/2007ES000251.