%0 Journal Article
%@ 0037-1106
%A Kijko, Andrzej
%A Dessokey, M. M.
%A Institute of Geophysics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland,
%A Helwan Institute of Astronomy and Geophysica Academy of Scientific Research and Technology Helwan, Egypt,
%D 1987
%F epos:1542
%I Seismological Society of America
%J Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America
%N 4
%P 1429-1436
%T Application of the extreme magnitude distributions to incomplete earthquake files
%U https://episodesplatform.eu/eprints/1542/
%V 77
%X The maximum-likelihood estimation of earthquake hazard parameters [maximum-regional magnitude (Mmax), activity rate (λ), and b parameter in the Gutenberg-Richter relation] is applied to extreme magnitude distribution, when the extreme magnitudes are taken from not necessarily equal time intervals. As an example, the derived procedures were applied to a set of the largest earthquakes felt in Egypt. The set contain the largest magnitudes from various time intervals (from a 500- to 1-yr duration) for the period from 800 B.C. to 1984 A.D.