Identifying Seismicity Levels via Poisson Hidden Markov Models

Pure and Applied Geophysics

Volumn 167, Issue 8-9, 2010, Pages 919-931

  Orfanogiannaki, K ^a   Karlis, D ^b   Papadopoulos, G A ^a  

^a NATIONAL OBSERVATORY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b ATHENS UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Poisson Hidden Markov Models; Seismicity levels; Transition probabilities

Indexed keywords

DEGREE OF STRENGTH; EARTHQUAKE FREQUENCY; FINITE-STATE; GRADUAL TRANSITION; IONIAN SEA; MAIN SHOCK; MARKOV CHAIN; POISSON HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS; REAL TIME RECOGNITION; SEISMICITY LEVELS; SERIAL DEPENDENCE; TRANSITION PROBABILITIES;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; EARTHQUAKES; POISSON DISTRIBUTION;

HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS;

EARTHQUAKE CATALOGUE; EARTHQUAKE INTENSITY; FORESHOCK; MARKOV CHAIN; SEISMICITY;

IONIAN SEA; MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

EID: 78049471688     PISSN: 00334553     EISSN: 14209136     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00024-010-0088-y     Document Type: Article

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