عنوان

Earthquakes :

(Number (ISBN

1118637925

(Number (ISBN

9781118637920

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Title Proper

Earthquakes :

General Material Designation

[Book]

Other Title Information

models, statistics, testable forecasts /

First Statement of Responsibility

Yan Y. Kagan

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

xviii, 283 pages ;

Dimensions

26 cm

Series Title

Statistical physics of fracture and breakdown

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Text of Note

"Our purpose is to analyze the causes of recent failures in earthquake forecasting, as well as the difficulties in earthquake investigation"--

Text of Note

"The proposed book is the first comprehensive and methodologically rigorous analysis of earthquake occurrence. Models based on the theory of the stochastic multidimensional point processes are employed to approximate the earthquake occurrence pattern and evaluate its parameters. The Author shows that most of these parameters have universal values. These results help explain the classical earthquake distributions: Omori's law and the Gutenberg-Richter relation. The Author derives a new negative-binomial distribution for earthquake numbers, instead of the Poisson distribution, and then determines a fractal correlation dimension for spatial distributions of earthquake hypocenters. The book also investigates the disorientation of earthquake focal mechanisms and shows that it follows the rotational Cauchy distribution. These statistical and mathematical advances make it possible to produce quantitative forecasts of earthquake occurrence. In these forecasts earthquake rate in time, space, and focal mechanism orientation is evaluated"--

Title

Earthquakes

International Standard Book Number

9781118637883

Earthquake hazard analysis

Earthquake prediction

Class number

Book number

Kagan, Yan Y.

Date of Transaction

20140411233259.0

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Electronic name

[Book]

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