Các nhà địa chấn học cố gắng sử dụng công cụ ví dụ mô hình ''Epidemic-Type Aftershock Sequence'' (ETAS) để dự báo chuỗi dư chấn.<ref>Helmstetter A., Sornette D., 2003. Predictability in the Epidemic-Type Aftershock Sequence model of interacting triggered seismicity. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth 108 (B10), p. 2482.</ref>
For example: {{cite journal
| last1 = Helmstetter
| first1 = Agnès
| last2 = Sornette
| first2 = Didier
| authorlink2 = Didier Sornette
|date=October 2003
| title = Predictability in the Epidemic-Type Aftershock Sequence model of interacting triggered seismicity
| journal = Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth
| quote = As part of an effort to develop a systematic methodology for earthquake forecasting, we use a simple model of seismicity based on interacting events which may trigger a cascade of earthquakes, known as the Epidemic-Type Aftershock Sequence model (ETAS).
