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Earthquakes : models, statistics, testable forecasts / Yan Y. Kagan

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Statistical physics of fracture and breakdownPublisher: Chichester, West Sussex : John Wiley & Sons, 2014Description: xviii, 283 pages : color illustrations, color mapsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781118637920
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 551.220112
Contents:
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
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Book Book Main Library Reference Section Reference R 551.220112 K11e 2014 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Room use only 50859QC

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

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