Another SSA special session announcement
Date: 11/06/2007
Special Session Announcement: Seismological Society of America Annual Meeting, 16-18 April, 2008
Next Generation of Collaborative Earthquake Predictability Research
Earthquake science is currently gaining momentum in the direction of standardizing rigorous methods for testing earthquake forecast hypotheses. Established testing centers provide the opportunity to more easily evaluate hypotheses in a way that has seen barriers in the past. Testing of models can not only provide insight into their overall performance, but it can also be used to develop a better understanding of their basic features. Additionally, current models in development often focus on particular aspects of the predictability problem; combining forecast methods from multiple models provides the potential for improving the forecast of any individual model. We solicit submissions that address one or more of the following issues as they relate to earthquake predictability: status of current (and plans for future) regional and global experiments; application of new models and multi-model combinations; methods for testing and evaluation. A special focus of this session is collaborative experiments.
Conveners:
Danijel Schorlemmer
University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
ds@usc.edu
Matt Gerstenberger
GNS Science, Lower Hutt, New Zealand
m.gerstenberger@gns.cri.nz
