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Nonextensive analysis of crustal seismicity in Taiwan
1Institute of Methodologies for Environmental Analysis, National Research Council, Tito Scalo (PZ), Italy
2Graduate Institute of Geophysics, National Central University, Jhongli 320, Taiwan
Abstract. Using the Taiwan Central Weather Bureau earthquake catalogue, the crustal seismicity of Taiwan was analyzed by means of a nonextensive approach. The time span of the analyzed catalogue is from 1 January 1990 to 30 November 2007, and only earthquakes with magnitude M≥2.0 were considered. Our findings reveal that the nonextensive statistics furnishes a very good prediction of the cumulative magnitude distribution of crustal seismicity in Taiwan, even if the aftershocks are removed, indicating that the approach is robust for clustered as well as declustered seismicity.
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Citation: Telesca, L. and Chen, C.-C.: Nonextensive analysis of crustal seismicity in Taiwan, Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci., 10, 1293-1297, doi:10.5194/nhess-10-1293-2010, 2010. Bibtex EndNote Reference Manager XML
