@article{ref1,
title="December 26, 2004, off the west coast of northern Sumatra, indonesia, m sub-w=9.0, earthquake and the critical-point-like model of earthquake preparation",
journal="Acta seismologica sinica. English edition",
year="2005",
author="Jiang, C.S. and Wu, Zheng-Lai",
volume="18",
number="3",
pages="290-296",
abstract="Long-term seismic activity prior to the December 26, 2004, off the west coast of northern Sumatra, Indonesia, M sub-W=9.0 earthquake was investigated using the Harvard CMT catalogue. It is observed that before this great earthquake, there exists an accelerating moment release (AMR) process with the temporal scale of a quarter century and the spatial scale of 1500 km. Within this spatial range, the M sub-W=9.0 event falls into the piece-wise power-law-like frequency-magnitude distribution. Therefore, in the perspective of the critical-point-like model of earthquake preparation, the failure to forecast/predict the approaching and/or the size of this earthquake is not due to the physically intrinsic unpredictability of earthquakes.   <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1000-9116",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}