Modelling seismic catalogues by cascade models: Do we need long-term magnitude correlations?

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 184, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 1214-1222

  Lennartz, S ^a   Bunde, A ^a   Turcotte, D L ^b  

^a JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Computational seismology; Persistence, memory, correlation, clustering; Statistical seismology; Time series analysis

Indexed keywords

AFTERSHOCK SEQUENCE; BASS MODEL; CALIFORNIA; CASCADE MODEL; COMPUTATIONAL SEISMOLOGY; DATA SETS; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDES; FLUCTUATION ANALYSIS; LONG-TERM CORRELATIONS; MISSING DATA; NATURAL TIME; PERSISTENCE, MEMORY, CORRELATION, CLUSTERING; SIMULATION MODEL; SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA; STATISTICAL SEISMOLOGY;

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EARTHQUAKES; TIME SERIES;

TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

AFTERSHOCK; EARTHQUAKE CATALOGUE; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; MODELING; SEISMICITY; SEISMOLOGY; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

CALIFORNIA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 79951580670     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2010.04902.x     Document Type: Article

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