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The author thanks Jim McCalpin and Volodya Kossobokov for the review of the initial manuscript and constructive comments.

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  1. Institut für Angewandte Geowissenschaften, Karlsruher Institut für Technologie, Bldg. 50.40, Adenauerring 20b, Karlsruhe, 76131, Germany

    Dr. Alik T. Ismail-Zadeh

  2. Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, 1, rue Jussieu, Paris, 75238, France

    Dr. Alik T. Ismail-Zadeh

  3. Institute of Earthquake Prediction Theory and Mathematical Geophysics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Profsoyuznaya 84/32, Moscow, 117997, Russia

    Dr. Alik T. Ismail-Zadeh

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Ismail-Zadeh, A.T. (2013). Earthquake Prediction and Forecasting. In: Bobrowsky, P.T. (eds) Encyclopedia of Natural Hazards. Encyclopedia of Earth Sciences Series. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-4399-4_106

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