On varying b-values with depth: results from computer-intensive tests for Southern California

D Amorese, JR Grasso… - Geophysical Journal …, 2010 - academic.oup.com
Summary The Gutenberg–Richter b-value is thought to reflect the stress conditions in the
crust; therefore, spatial and/or temporal variations of the b-value can provide important …

A declustered earthquake catalog for the Iranian Plateau

SH Mousavi-Bafrouei, N Mirzaei… - Annals of …, 2014 - annalsofgeophysics.eu
A unified catalog of earthquakes in Iran and adjacent regions (the area bounded in 22 º-42 º
N and 42 º-66 º E) covering the period of 4 th century BC through 2012 with M w≥ 4 is …

The major asperities of the 1999 Mw = 7.4 Izmit earthquake defined by the microseismicity of the two decades before it

AO Öncel, M Wyss - Geophysical Journal International, 2000 - academic.oup.com
We compare the rupture location of the M w 7.4 Izmit earthquake to the local seismic hazard
estimated by the technique of mapping local recurrence time, TL, based on the …

Magnitude of completeness, b-value, and spatial correlation dimension of earthquakes in the South Baikal Basin, Baikal Rift System

NA Radziminovich, AI Miroshnichenko, FL Zuev - Tectonophysics, 2019 - Elsevier
Magnitude of completeness, b-value, and correlation dimension of spatial epicenter
distribution were estimated for the South Baikal basin using earthquake catalogue for the …

Precursory seismicity changes associated with the Mw= 7.4 1999 August 17 Izmit (Turkey) earthquake

Q Huang, AO Öncel, GA Sobolev - Geophysical Journal …, 2002 - academic.oup.com
We investigated precursory seismicity in and around the epicentral zone of the M w= 7.4
1999 August 17 Izmit (Turkey) earthquake, by applying a statistical method—the RTL …

Size scaling relationships in the active fault networks of Japan and their correlation with Gutenberg‐Richter b values

AO Öncel, TH Wilson… - Journal of Geophysical …, 2001 - Wiley Online Library
Fractal properties of active fault systems in Japan are evaluated and compared to Gutenberg‐
Richter b values. Properties of the active fault network and seismicity were evaluated at 20 …

[HTML][HTML] Analysis of the devastating Kashmir earthquake 2005 aftershocks

K Rehman, SMT Qadri, A Ali, A Ali, S Ahmed - Arabian Journal of …, 2016 - Springer
Along with most of the northern Pakistan and the Kashmir regions (Kashmir and eastern
districts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa), Muzaffarabad and Balakot were shaken by a …

The Maximum Likelihood Estimator of b-Value for Mainshocks

AM Lombardi - Bulletin of the Seismological Society of …, 2003 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Considering the magnitudes of events in a catalog as independent and exponentially
distributed random variables, in agreement with the Gutenberg–Richter law, the statistical …

The waveform similarity approach to identify dependent events in instrumental seismic catalogues

S Barani, G Ferretti, M Massa… - Geophysical Journal …, 2007 - academic.oup.com
In this paper, waveform similarity analysis is adapted and implemented in a declustering
procedure to identify foreshocks and aftershocks, to obtain instrumental catalogues that are …

A GIS-based time-dependent seismic source modeling of Northern Iran

M Hashemi, AA Alesheikh, MR Zolfaghari - Earthquake Engineering and …, 2017 - Springer
The first step in any seismic hazard study is the definition of seismogenic sources and the
estimation of magnitude-frequency relationships for each source. There is as yet no …