ETAS Space–Time Modeling of Chile Triggered Seismicity Using Covariates: Some Preliminary Results
Chilean seismic activity is one of the strongest in the world. As already shown in previous papers, seismic activity can be usefully described by a space–time branching process, such as the ETAS (Epidemic Type Aftershock Sequences) model, which is a semiparametric model with a large time-scale component for the background seismicity and a small time-scale component for the triggered seismicity. The use of covariates can improve the description of triggered seismicity in the ETAS model, so in this paper, we study the Chilean seismicity separately for the North and South area, using some GPS-related data observed together with ordinary catalog data. Our results show evidence that the use of s…
Windowed Etas Models With Application To The Chilean Seismic Catalogs
Abstract The seismicity in Chile is estimated using an ETAS (Epidemic Type Aftershock sequences) space–time point process through a semi-parametric technique to account for the estimation of parametric and nonparametric components simultaneously. The two components account for triggered and background seismicity respectively, and are estimated by alternating a ML estimation for the parametric part and a forward predictive likelihood technique for the nonparametric one. Given the geographic and seismological characteristics of Chile, the sensitivity of the technique with respect to different geographical areas is examined in overlapping successive windows with varying latitude. A different b…
ETAS Space time modelling of Chile induced seismicity using covariates.
<p>Chilean seismic activity is among the strongest ones in the world. As already shown in previous papers, seismic activity can be usefully described by a space-time branching process, like the ETAS (Epidemic Type Aftershock Sequences) model, which is a semiparametric model with a large time scale component for the background seismicity and a small time scale component for the induced seismicity. The large-scale component intensity function  is usually estimated by  nonparametric techniques, specifically in our paper we used the Forward Likelihood Predictive approach (FLP); the induced seismicity is modelled with a parametric space-time function. In c…
Space-Time Forecasting of Seismic Events in Chile
The aim of this work is to study the seismicity in Chile using the ETAS (epidemic type aftershock sequences) space‐time approach. The proposed ETAS model is estimated using a semi‐parametric technique taking into account the parametric and nonparametric components corresponding to the triggered and background seismicity, respectively. The model is then used to predict the temporal and spatial intensity of events for some areas of Chile where recent large earthquakes (with magnitude greater than 8.0 M) occurred.
ConvLSTM Neural Networks for seismic event prediction in Chile
Predicting seismic risk is a challenging task in order to avoid catastrophic effects. In this work, two models based on Convolutional Network (CNN) and Long Short Term Memory (LSTM) networks are proposed to predict the seismic risk in Chile. In particular, a ConvLSTM and a Multi-column ConvLSTM network are used for the prediction of the average number of seismic events greater than 2,8 magnitude on the Richter scale, in the Chilean regions of Coquimbo and Araucania between the years 2010 and 2017. For this model, the values of the intensity function estimated through an ETAS model and the accumulated displacement prior to a the seismic events are used as inputs. In particular, given the spa…