eprintid: 169 rev_number: 17 eprint_status: archive userid: 2 dir: disk0/00/00/01/69 datestamp: 2015-02-20 11:31:49 lastmod: 2020-03-24 08:25:03 status_changed: 2015-04-27 07:26:52 type: article metadata_visibility: show creators_name: Quintela-del-Ri­o, Alejandro creators_id: aquintela@udc.es corp_creators: Facultad de Inform´atica, Universidad de A Coru˜na, A Coru˜na, Spain title: On non-parametric techniques for area-characteristic seismic hazard parameters ispublished: pub subjects: SS divisions: EPOS-P full_text_status: none keywords: Probability distributions; Earthquake interaction, forecasting, and predictions; Statistical seismology. abstract: Usual techniques for estimating the seismic hazard, within a specific geographical area, are focused in the theory of extremes of Gumbel. Such kind of techniques suppose the existence of a parametric type of stochastic model for the process of occurrence of earthquakes. In this work, we will see that the use of non-parametric curve estimation techniques represent an interesting alternative to this procedure. From the definition of seismic hazard, we construct a nonparametric estimate of this function and other related parameters of interest, such as the modal annual magnitude, the yearly expected number of earthquakes, the mean return period and the maximum magnitude. Applications to earthquakes data of Southern Spain are made. date: 2010 date_type: published publication: Geophysical Journal International volume: 180 number: 1 publisher: Oxford University Press pagerange: 339-346 id_number: doi:10.1111/j.1365-246X.2009.04410.x refereed: TRUE issn: 0956-540X official_url: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-246X.2009.04410.x access_IS-EPOS: unlimited owner: Publisher citation: Quintela-del-Ri­o, Alejandro (2010) On non-parametric techniques for area-characteristic seismic hazard parameters. Geophysical Journal International, 180 (1). pp. 339-346. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-246X.2009.04410.x