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GEOPHYSICAL JOURNAL INTERNATIONAL
卷 232, 期 3, 页码 2080-2086出版社
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/gji/ggac436
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Statistical methods; Statistical seismology; Theoretical seismology
Many natural hazards, such as earthquakes, exhibit a scaling relationship between the frequency and size of events. This study derives an analytic expression for the bias in estimating the scaling exponent, b, based on the dynamic range of the data. The results explain why the likelihood of large events is often underestimated in small catalogs with limited dynamic range, which has implications for assessing hazard levels.
Many natural hazards exhibit inverse power-law scaling of frequency and event size, or an exponential scaling of event magnitude (m) on a logarithmic scale, for example the Gutenberg-Richter law for earthquakes, with probability density function p(m) similar to 10(-bm). We derive an analytic expression for the bias that arises in the maximum likelihood estimate of b as a function of the dynamic range r. The theory predicts the observed evolution of the modal value of mean magnitude in multiple random samples of synthetic catalogues at different r, including the bias to high b at low r and the observed trend to an asymptotic limit with no bias. The situation is more complicated for a single sample in real catalogues due to their heterogeneity, magnitude uncertainty and the true b-value being unknown. The results explain why the likelihood of large events and the associated hazard is often underestimated in small catalogues with low dynamic range, for example in some studies of volcanic and induced seismicity.
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