Probabilistic assessment of earthquake recurrence in northeast India and adjoining regions

Pure and Applied Geophysics

Volumn 167, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 1331-1342

  Yadav, Ram Bichar Singh ^a,d   Tripathi, Jayant Nath ^b   Rastogi, Bal Krishna ^a   Das, Mridul Chandra ^c   Chopra, Sumer ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF SEISMOLOGICAL RESEARCH   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALLAHABAD   (India)

^c Shiv Vani Oil and Gas Exploration Ltd   (India)

^d INDIAN NATIONAL CENTRE FOR OCEAN INFORMATION SERVICES   (India)

Author keywords

Conditional probability; Cumulative probability; Earthquake hazard; Probabilistic models

Indexed keywords

CONDITIONAL PROBABILITIES; CUMULATIVE PROBABILITIES; CUMULATIVE PROBABILITY; EARTHQUAKE HAZARD; EARTHQUAKE RECURRENCE; GAMMA MODELS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; LOG-NORMAL; LOG-NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; LOSS OF LIFE; MEAN VALUES; METHOD OF MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD; PROBABILISTIC ASSESSMENTS; PROBABILISTIC MODELS; SAMPLE MEANS; SEISMIC ZONES; WEIBULL;

EARTHQUAKES; HAZARDS; MAPS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD; WEIBULL DISTRIBUTION;

PROBABILITY;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; EARTHQUAKE CATALOGUE; EARTHQUAKE EVENT; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; EARTHQUAKE MECHANISM; EARTHQUAKE PREDICTION; EARTHQUAKE RECURRENCE; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; PROBABILITY; SEISMIC HAZARD;

INDIA;

EID: 84860389476     PISSN: 00334553     EISSN: 14209136     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00024-010-0105-1     Document Type: Article

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