Articles | Volume 11, issue 11
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-11-4383-2018
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-11-4383-2018
Development and technical paper
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01 Nov 2018
Development and technical paper |  | 01 Nov 2018

Bayesian earthquake dating and seismic hazard assessment using chlorine-36 measurements (BED v1)

Joakim Beck, Sören Wolfers, and Gerald P. Roberts

Model code and software

Bayesian Earthquake Dating (BED) J. Beck, S. Wolfers, and G. P. Roberts https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1402093

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Seismic hazard assessment requires records of earthquake recurrence with many slip events. Current data from paleoseismology on individual faults are sparse and do not provide stable estimates of earthquake recurrence. We propose a statistical model-based method to study timings of earthquakes over the past few millennia. The results agree with historical earthquakes for faults in the Italian Apennines, and can aid future studies of fault interactions over multiple earthquake cycles.