1. Arthur CHARPENTIER & Mathieu BOUDREAULT, Bivariate count processes for earthquake frequency
Bivariate Count Processes
for Earthquake Frequency
Mathieu Boudreault & Arthur Charpentier
Université du Québec à Montréal
charpentier.arthur@uqam.ca
http ://freakonometrics.blog.free.fr/
Séminaire GeoTop, January 2012
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2. Arthur CHARPENTIER & Mathieu BOUDREAULT, Bivariate count processes for earthquake frequency
Motivation
“Large earthquakes are known to trigger earthquakes elsewhere. Damaging large
aftershocks occur close to the mainshock and microearthquakes are triggered by
passing seismic waves at significant distances from the mainshock. It is unclear,
however, whether bigger, more damaging earthquakes are routinely triggered at
distances far from the mainshock, heightening the global seismic hazard after
every large earthquake. Here we assemble a catalogue of all possible earthquakes
greater than M5 that might have been triggered by every M7 or larger mainshock
during the past 30 years. [...] We observe a significant increase in the rate of
seismic activity at distances confined to within two to three rupture lengths of the
mainshock. Thus, we conclude that the regional hazard of larger earthquakes is
increased after a mainshock, but the global hazard is not.” Parsons & Velasco
(2011)
Figures : Number of earthquakes (magnitude exceeding 2.0, per 15 sec.)
following a large earthquake (of magnitude 6.5), normalized so that the expected
number of earthquakes before and after is 100.
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