BayHaz (version 0.1-3)

earthquakes: Waiting Times between Strong Earthquakes in the Appennino Abruzzese

Description

This data set gives the waiting times (in years) between earthquakes with moment maginitude greater than 5.1, in the Italian seismogenic zone 923, from year 1650 to year 2002, as obtained by La Rocca (2005) based on the catalogue by Gruppo di Lavoro CPTI (2004).

Usage

data(earthquakes)

Format

A data frame with 47 observations on the following 2 variables:

ti

earthquake inter-event times (years)

ob

censoring indicators (0 = right censored, 1 = exact)

Source

Gruppo di Lavoro CPTI (2004). Catalogo Parametrico dei Terremoti Italiani, versione 2004 (CPTI04). INGV, Bologna, http://emidius.mi.ingv.it/CPTI. In Italian.

References

Luca La Rocca (2005). On Bayesian Nonparametric Estimation of Smooth Hazard Rates with a View to Seismic Hazard Assessment. Research Report n. 38-05, Department of Social, Cognitive and Quantitative Sciences, Reggio Emilia, Italy.

See Also

BayHaz-package

Examples

# load data set
data(earthquakes)

# show data set structure
str(earthquakes)