Author: Yan Y. Kagan
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1118637895
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 358
Book Description
This 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.
Earthquakes
Author: Yan Y. Kagan
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1118637895
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 358
Book Description
This 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.
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1118637895
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 358
Book Description
This 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.
The Loma Prieta, California, Earthquake of October 17, 1989: Earthquake occurrence
Author: Geological Survey (É.-U.)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Buildings, Reinforced concrete
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Buildings, Reinforced concrete
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
Earthquake Statistical Analysis through Multi-state Modeling
Author: Irene Votsi
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1119579082
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 121
Book Description
Earthquake occurrence modeling is a rapidly developing research area. This book deals with its critical issues, ranging from theoretical advances to practical applications. The introductory chapter outlines state-of-the-art earthquake modeling approaches based on stochastic models. Chapter 2 presents seismogenesis in association with the evolving stress field. Chapters 3 to 5 present earthquake occurrence modeling by means of hidden (semi-)Markov models and discuss associated characteristic measures and relative estimation aspects. Further comparisons, the most important results and our concluding remarks are provided in Chapters 6 and 7.
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1119579082
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 121
Book Description
Earthquake occurrence modeling is a rapidly developing research area. This book deals with its critical issues, ranging from theoretical advances to practical applications. The introductory chapter outlines state-of-the-art earthquake modeling approaches based on stochastic models. Chapter 2 presents seismogenesis in association with the evolving stress field. Chapters 3 to 5 present earthquake occurrence modeling by means of hidden (semi-)Markov models and discuss associated characteristic measures and relative estimation aspects. Further comparisons, the most important results and our concluding remarks are provided in Chapters 6 and 7.
Earthquakes
Author: Bruce Bolt
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780716775485
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
The ultimate introduction to seismology, written by distinguished scholar and Professor Bruce Bolt, of the University of California, Berkeley, this newly updated edition will provide the best foundation in the field for your introductory students.
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780716775485
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
The ultimate introduction to seismology, written by distinguished scholar and Professor Bruce Bolt, of the University of California, Berkeley, this newly updated edition will provide the best foundation in the field for your introductory students.
Earthquake Disasters
Author: Jiuping Xu
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000462471
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
This book explores practices and approaches on pre-disaster prevention and post-disaster reconstruction for vulnerable countries and areas enhancing earthquake disaster resilience. Destructive earthquakes have frequently occurred in urban or rural areas around the world, causing severe damage on human societies. Pre-earthquake prevention and post-earthquake reconstruction effect the disaster resilience building and long-term development of the affected communities and areas. In recent years, researchers from around the world have made a lot of efforts to study on the theme ‘earthquake disaster prevention and reconstruction’. The chapters in this edited volume contribute to the literature of earthquake disaster research from scientific, social and institutional aspects. These interdisciplinary studies mainly focus on human and policy dimensions of earthquake disaster, such as earthquake risk mitigation, social-physical resilience building, resilience capability assessment, healthcare surge capacity, house reconstruction, the roles of schools, households, civil societies and public participation in earthquake disaster prevention and reconstruction. The authors come from several counties, including China, Bangladesh, Iran, New Zealand, Saudi Arabia, the United Kingdom, Denmark, and Indonesia, covering the cases from those countries prone to earthquakes. These nine distinctive chapters have been elaborately selected and integrated from the international, ranked, peer-reviewed journal, Environmental Hazards.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000462471
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
This book explores practices and approaches on pre-disaster prevention and post-disaster reconstruction for vulnerable countries and areas enhancing earthquake disaster resilience. Destructive earthquakes have frequently occurred in urban or rural areas around the world, causing severe damage on human societies. Pre-earthquake prevention and post-earthquake reconstruction effect the disaster resilience building and long-term development of the affected communities and areas. In recent years, researchers from around the world have made a lot of efforts to study on the theme ‘earthquake disaster prevention and reconstruction’. The chapters in this edited volume contribute to the literature of earthquake disaster research from scientific, social and institutional aspects. These interdisciplinary studies mainly focus on human and policy dimensions of earthquake disaster, such as earthquake risk mitigation, social-physical resilience building, resilience capability assessment, healthcare surge capacity, house reconstruction, the roles of schools, households, civil societies and public participation in earthquake disaster prevention and reconstruction. The authors come from several counties, including China, Bangladesh, Iran, New Zealand, Saudi Arabia, the United Kingdom, Denmark, and Indonesia, covering the cases from those countries prone to earthquakes. These nine distinctive chapters have been elaborately selected and integrated from the international, ranked, peer-reviewed journal, Environmental Hazards.
The Physics of Rock Failure and Earthquakes
Author: Mitiyasu Ohnaka
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107030064
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 281
Book Description
This book provides a deeper understanding of earthquake processes, based on laboratory-derived physical laws and formulae, for researchers, professionals and graduate students.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107030064
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 281
Book Description
This book provides a deeper understanding of earthquake processes, based on laboratory-derived physical laws and formulae, for researchers, professionals and graduate students.
Earthquake Research and Knowledge
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Aeronautical and Space Sciences
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Earthquakes
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Earthquakes
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Earthquake Engineering
Author: Y-X. Hu
Publisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 9780419205906
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 434
Book Description
A unified presentation of engineering seismology and earthquake-resistant design, this book presents a wide ranging coverage of the whole subject of earthquake engineering so that the reader is given a clear appreciation of earthquakes before dealing with their effects on structures. In addition, newer mathematical modelling techniques are introduced which can be powerful tools for assessing and dealing with the risks associated with design and construction in seismic regions.
Publisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 9780419205906
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 434
Book Description
A unified presentation of engineering seismology and earthquake-resistant design, this book presents a wide ranging coverage of the whole subject of earthquake engineering so that the reader is given a clear appreciation of earthquakes before dealing with their effects on structures. In addition, newer mathematical modelling techniques are introduced which can be powerful tools for assessing and dealing with the risks associated with design and construction in seismic regions.
Return Periods and Probabilities of Occurrence of Large Earthquakes in Papua New Guinea
Author: I. D. Ripper
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Earthquake prediction
Languages : en
Pages : 108
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Earthquake prediction
Languages : en
Pages : 108
Book Description
The ShakeOut Earthquake Scenario
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Earthquake hazard analysis
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Earthquake hazard analysis
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description