Earthquakes :
xviii, 283 p. ; illustrations (some color), tables, maps. - (Statistical physics of fracture and breakdown ) Content notes : Part I Models:
1. Motivation: Earthquake science challenges--
2. Seismolgical background--
3. Stochastic processes and earthquake occurrence models--
Part II Statistics:
4. Statistical distributions of earthquake numbers: Conseque3nce of branching process--
5. Earthquake size distribution--
6. Temporal earthquake distribution--
7. Earthquake location distribution--
8. Focal mechanism orientation and source complexity--
Part III testable forecasts:
9. Global earthquake patterns--
10. Long and short-term earthquake forecasting--
11. Testing long-term earthquake forecasts: likelihood methods and error diagrams--
12. Future prospects and problems--
References--
Index. Earthquake hazard analysis. SCIENCE / Geophysics.