Earthquake Statistics

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• Magnitude Occurrence
•  The Gutenberg-Richter Law
  • Beno Gutenberg
  • Charles Richter
• Magnitude versus Energy
• Seismic Moment and Fault Length
• Frequency-Seismic Moment Statistics
•  Frequency-Magnitude Statistics
  • Fractal Plot
•  Time-variation in b-value along the Fault Zones

• Asperity based Source Characterization
  • Relation between Rupture Area and Seismic Moment
  • Repetition of Asperities
• Frequency of Earthquakes in California: Firs Paper on Earthquake Statistics
• Roll-off pattern in Magnitude distribution: Possible Reasons

• Earthquake Completeness: Threshold Magnitude (Mc)
• Spatial-Temporal detection of Mc for Modern Catalogue (1992-1999): Example from North Anatolian Fault Zone
• Long-term detection of Mc: Example from NAFZ based on approach of unequal observation periods for different magnitudes
• Earthquake Catalogues:  Desirable Properties

• World-wide Frequency-Magnitude Statistics: Example from Seismicity of Stable Craton Cores (SCC)
  • Earthquake Catalogue Completeness for SCC
  • Magnitude Range for SCC
  • Magnitude-Frequency Plot for SCC
  • Worldwide rates of stable cratonic core seismicity
    • African SCC seismicity
    • North American SCC seismicity
    •  South American SCC Seismicity
    •  Australian SCC Seismicity
    • Seismicity of Canadian Stable Craton
    •  Seismicity of Arabian Stable Craton
• Fault Length-Magnitude Relation
• Occurrence ime-Magnitude Relation
• Time-space variation of Slip: M7.3 Lander Earthquake