The Weibull-log Weibull transition of interoccurrence time for synthetic and natural earthquakes

Tectonophysics

Volumn 485, Issue 1-4, 2010, Pages 9-16

  Hasumi, Tomohiro ^a   Chen, Chien chih ^b   Akimoto, Takuma ^a   Aizawa, Yoji ^a  

^a WASEDA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Earthquakes; Interoccurrent time interval statistics; Log Weibull distribution; Probability distribution; Statistical seismology; Weibull distribution; Weibull log Weibull transition

Indexed keywords

CENTRAL WEATHER BUREAUX; EARTHQUAKE DATA; EARTHQUAKE PROCESS; EMPIRICAL RELATIONS; JAPAN METEOROLOGICAL AGENCIES; LOG-WEIBULL DISTRIBUTION; NATURAL EARTHQUAKE; PLATE VELOCITY; SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA; STATISTICAL SEISMOLOGY; TIME DISTRIBUTION; WEIBULL; WEIBULL STATISTICS; WEIBULL-LOG WEIBULL TRANSITION;

EARTHQUAKES; LIBRARIES; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; STATISTICS;

WEIBULL DISTRIBUTION;

EARTHQUAKE CATALOGUE; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; EARTHQUAKE MECHANISM; EARTHQUAKE PREDICTION; PROBABILITY; SEISMOLOGY; SPATIAL VARIATION; TEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TEMPORAL VARIATION; TIME DEPENDENT BEHAVIOR; WEIBULL THEORY;

CALIFORNIA; JAPAN; TAIWAN; UNITED STATES;

EID: 77950432081     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2009.11.012     Document Type: Article

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