Estimation of the maximum possible magnitude in the framework of a doubly truncated Gutenberg-Richter model

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 101, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 1649-1659

  Holschneider, Matthias ^a   Zöller, Gert ^a   Hainzl, Sebastian ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

^b GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN FORMULATION; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONFIDENCE LEVELS; EARTHQUAKE CATALOGS; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDES; EARTHQUAKE PROCESS; EXACT CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; EXTREME EVENTS; FAULT REGION; FINITE PROBABILITIES; FREQUENTIST; INFORMATIVE PRIORS; LIMITED INFORMATION; NUMERICAL MODELS; POSTERIOR DISTRIBUTIONS; STATISTICAL INFERENCE; TIME INTERVAL; UNKNOWN VALUES; UPPER BOUND;

EARTHQUAKES; MODELS;

FINANCIAL DATA PROCESSING;

BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; EARTHQUAKE CATALOGUE; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; NUMERICAL MODEL; PROBABILITY;

EID: 79961147940     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: 19433573     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120100289     Document Type: Article

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