The effect of uncertainties on estimates of background seismicity rate

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 101, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 482-494

  van Stiphout, Thomas ^a   Schorlemmer, Danijel ^b   Wiemer, Stefan ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DECLUSTERING; EARTHQUAKE CATALOGS; EDGE EFFECT; HYPOCENTER LOCATION; LOCATION UNCERTAINTY; MAIN SHOCK; PARAMETER VALUES; POISSONIAN; RATE ESTIMATION; SEISMIC NETWORKS; SOURCES OF UNCERTAINTY; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SYNTHETIC CATALOGS;

EARTHQUAKE EFFECTS; LIBRARIES; SEISMOLOGY; TRANSIENTS;

UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

AFTERSHOCK; ALGORITHM; EARTHQUAKE CATALOGUE; EARTHQUAKE HYPOCENTER; ESTIMATION METHOD; FORESHOCK; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; SEISMICITY; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EID: 79953056211     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: 19433573     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120090143     Document Type: Article

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