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Seismologists produce new 10-year big quake forecast

19-Dec-2017

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Improved understanding of how larger earthquakes cluster in time and space.

Forecasting is also being helped by research into slow slip events.

Geonet producing 1-year and 10-year forecasts including probabilities of large events.

An element of human judgment still goes into the new forecasts.

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GNS Science

New Zealand Crown Research Institute focused on geology, geophysics, and nuclear science.

Matthew (Matt) Gerstenberger

GeoNet earthquake duty seismologist and an Associate Editor for the Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America.

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