DISTRIBUTION LAWS OF RECURRENCE PERIODS AND MAGNITUDE SEQUENCE OF GREAT EARTHQUAKES IN MAINLAND CHINA AND ITS SURROUNDING REGIONS
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Abstract
In Mainland China and surrounding regions, the recurrence periods of great earthquakes obey nearly the normal distribution law with mathematical expectation m= 39.5 months and = 3.3 months (variance 2) within a seismic active time interval while the recurrence magnitude sequence may be described by a nonhomogeneous Markov chain.
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