Power of earthquake cluster detection tests

Details Power of earthquake cluster detection tests Power of earthquake cluster detection tests

2012-04-05

arxiv.org/abs/1204.1131v1

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Testing the global earthquake catalogue for indications of non-Poissonian attributes has been an area of intense research, especially since the 2011 Tohoku earthquake. The usual approach is to test statistically for the hypothesis that the global earthquake catalogue is well explained by a Poissonian process. In this paper we analyse one aspect of this problem which has been disregarded by the literature: the power of such tests to detect non-Poissonian features if they existed; that is, the probability of type II statistical errors. We argue that the low frequency of large events and the brevity of our earthquake catalogues reduces the power of the statistical tests so that an unequivocal answer for this question is not granted. We do this by providing a counter example of a stochastic process that is clustered by construction and by analysing the resulting distribution of p-values given by the current tests.

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