Using the ETAS model for catalog declustering and seismic background assessment

Pure and Applied Geophysics

Volumn 167, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 819-830

  Console, R ^a   Jackson, D D ^b   Kagan, Y Y ^b  

^a ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI GEOFISICA E VULCANOLOGIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Declustering; Epidemic model; Maximum likelihood; Seismic background

Indexed keywords

AFTERSHOCK; ALGORITHM; EARTHQUAKE CATALOGUE; EARTHQUAKE TRIGGER; FORESHOCK; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ANALYSIS; MODELING; PROBABILITY; SEISMIC MOMENT; SEISMIC ZONE; SEISMICITY;

EID: 77954315240     PISSN: 00334553     EISSN: 14209136     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00024-010-0065-5     Document Type: Article

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