TY - JOUR
T1 - Reviews of seismicity around Taiwan
T2 - Weibull distribution
AU - Wang, J. P.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2015, Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht.
PY - 2016/2/1
Y1 - 2016/2/1
N2 - Statistical studies and empirical models play an important role in earthquake research. In this paper, a new statistical study was presented, evaluating if earthquake magnitude probability functions could be modeled by the Weibull distribution that is commonly used in many areas. On the basis of more than 50,000 earthquake data around Taiwan, the statistical analyses show that the hypothesis examined was not rejected by the statistics. That is, the earthquake magnitude probability function around Taiwan could be modeled by the Weibull distribution, with a substantial statistical significance.
AB - Statistical studies and empirical models play an important role in earthquake research. In this paper, a new statistical study was presented, evaluating if earthquake magnitude probability functions could be modeled by the Weibull distribution that is commonly used in many areas. On the basis of more than 50,000 earthquake data around Taiwan, the statistical analyses show that the hypothesis examined was not rejected by the statistics. That is, the earthquake magnitude probability function around Taiwan could be modeled by the Weibull distribution, with a substantial statistical significance.
KW - Earthquake magnitude function
KW - Statistical hypothesis tests
KW - Weibull distribution
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84954379342&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/s11069-015-2045-7
DO - 10.1007/s11069-015-2045-7
M3 - 期刊論文
AN - SCOPUS:84954379342
SN - 0921-030X
VL - 80
SP - 1651
EP - 1668
JO - Natural Hazards
JF - Natural Hazards
IS - 3
ER -