Shake-up time for Japanese seismology

Shake-up time for Japanese seismology

Robert J. Geller calls on Japan to stop using flawed methods for long-term forecasts and to scrap its system for trying to predict the 'Tokai earthquake'.

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Veröffentlicht in:Nature (London) 2011-04, Vol.472 (7344), p.407-409
1. Verfasser: Geller, Robert J.
Format: Artikel
Sprache:eng
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Disaster Planning - methods
Disaster Planning - trends
Disasters - statistics & numerical data
Earth science
Earthquakes
Earthquakes - mortality
Earthquakes - statistics & numerical data
Fatalities
Federal Government
Forecasting - methods
Humanities and Social Sciences
Humans
Japan
Measurement techniques
Models, Theoretical
multidisciplinary
Pacific Ocean
Plate tectonics
Probability
R&D
Research & development
Science
Science (multidisciplinary)
Seismic activity
Seismology
Time Factors
Tokyo
Tsunamis
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Zusammenfassung:Robert J. Geller calls on Japan to stop using flawed methods for long-term forecasts and to scrap its system for trying to predict the 'Tokai earthquake'.
ISSN:0028-0836
1476-4687
DOI:10.1038/nature10105