%0 Journal Article
%@ 0037-1106
%A Pisarenko, Vladilen
%A Lyubushin, Alexey
%A Lysenko, V. B.
%A Golubeva, T. V.
%A Joint Institute of the Physics of the Earth Russian Academy of Sciences Bolshaya Gruzinskaya 10 123242 Moscow, Russia,
%A International Institute of Earthquake Prediction Theory and Mathematical Geophysics Russian Academy of Sciences Warshavskoe shosse 79, korp. 2 113556 Moscow, Russia,
%D 1996
%F epos:1528
%I Seismological Society of America
%J Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America
%N 3
%P 691-700
%T Statistical Estimation of Seismic Hazard Parameters: Maximum Possible Magnitude and Related Parameters
%U https://episodesplatform.eu/eprints/1528/
%V 86
%X The problem of statistical estimation of earthquake hazard parameters is considered. The emphasis is on estimation of the maximum regional magnitude, Mmax, and the maximum magnitude, Mmax(T), in a future time interval T and quantiles of its distribution. Two estimators are suggested: an unbiased estimator with the lowest possible variance and a Bayesian estimator. As an illustration, these methods are applied for the estimation of Mmax and related parameters in California and Italy.