About this Research Topic
One of the main applications in this field is the Operational Earthquake Forecasting (OEF), already developed in several Countries worldwide, which delivers real-time probabilistic earthquake rates to help in raising and disseminating authoritative information about the time dependency of seismic hazard.
The goal of this collection is to present recent methodological and applicative advances in the study of the earthquake phenomenon, that would represent a relevant progress in the field of statistical seismology. The aim is to contribute in making potential breakthroughs that would help stakeholders to establish rational containment measures of the seismic risk and communities to be prepared for potentially destructive earthquakes.
This Research Topic welcomes theoretical and real-word studies on statistical, stochastic-physical and mathematical applications to earthquake modeling and forecasting. Both advanced original research and review articles are invited. The list of specific themes addressed in this collection includes, but is not limited to:
- Dissemination and analysis of high-quality earthquake catalogs.
- Integration of physics-based models for seismic sequences.
- Performance testing of earthquake forecasting models.
- New developments in data-driven probabilistic models in seismology.
- Advances in statistical techniques to estimate existing models parameters and statistical distributions (e.g. the magnitude frequency distribution).
- Applications to seismic catalogs at different scales (local, regional, global).
- Applications of statistical methodologies to volcanic seismicity.
- Comparison of the existing techniques, models and approaches concerning similar applications, but independently developed by different scientists.
- Development of free, publicly available algorithms of statistical seismology.
Keywords: Statistical seismology, Earthquakes occurrences, Seismic forecasting, Physics-based earthquakes modeling, Seismic hazard
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