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Application of Gumbel mixture extreme theory and maximum likelihood to estimate the seismic risk of the Chinese mainland

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Chen, H., Huang, ZX. Application of Gumbel mixture extreme theory and maximum likelihood to estimate the seismic risk of the Chinese mainland. Acta Seismologica Sinica 8, 325–331 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02650497

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