TY - BOOK AU - Kagan,Yan Y. TI - Earthquakes: : models, statistics, testable forecasts T2 - Statistical physics of fracture and breakdown SN - 9781118637920 U1 - 551.220112 PY - 2014/// CY - Chichester, West Sussex PB - John Wiley & Sons KW - Earthquake prediction KW - Earthquake hazard analysis N1 - Includes bibliographical references (page 260-279) and index; Part I. Models; 1. Motivation : earthquakes science challenges; 2. Seismological background; 3. Stochastic processes and earthquake occurrence models; Part II. Statistics; 4. Statistical distributions of earthquake numbers : consequence of branching process; 5. Earthquake size distribution; 6. Temporal earthquake distribution; 7. Earthquake location distribution; 8. Focal mechanism orientation and source complexity; Part III. Testable forecasts; 9. Global earthquake patterns; 10. Long- and short-term earthquake forecasting; 11. Testing long-term earthquake forecasts : likelihood methods and error diagrams; 12. Future prospects and problems ER -