Clustering analysis of the seismic catalog of Iran

Computers and Geosciences

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 475-486

  Ansari, Anooshiravan ^a   Noorzad, Assadollah ^b   Zafarani, Hamid ^b  

^a INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF EARTHQUAKE ENGINEERING AND SEISMOLOGY IIEES   (Iran)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

Author keywords

Fuzzy clustering analysis; Historical events; Instrumental events; Seismic catalog; Seismotectonic provinces

Indexed keywords

CLUSTERING ALGORITHMS; EARTHQUAKES; FUZZY CLUSTERING; FUZZY SETS; FUZZY SYSTEMS; HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; SEISMIC RESPONSE; SEISMIC WAVES; SEISMOLOGY; VISUAL COMMUNICATION;

FUZZY CLUSTERING ANALYSIS; HISTORICAL EVENTS; INSTRUMENTAL EVENTS; SEISMIC CATALOG; SEISMOTECTONIC PROVINCES;

CLUSTER ANALYSIS;

ALGORITHM; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; EARTHQUAKE CATALOGUE; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; FUZZY MATHEMATICS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ANALYSIS; SEISMIC DATA; SEISMOTECTONICS;

ASIA; EURASIA; IRAN; MIDDLE EAST;

EID: 60249095101     PISSN: 00983004     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cageo.2008.01.010     Document Type: Article

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