Time varying seismicity in Greece: Hurst's analysis and Monte Carlo simulation applied to a new earthquake catalogue for Greece

Tectonophysics

Volumn 423, Issue 1-4, 2006, Pages 125-136

  Xu, Yebang ^a   Burton, Paul W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Earthquake; Fractal texture; Greece; Memory; Monte Carlo simulation; Rescaled Range analysis

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKE CATALOGUE; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; SEISMIC HAZARD; SEISMICITY; SIMULATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EURASIA; EUROPE; GREECE; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 33746899691     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2006.03.006     Document Type: Article

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