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A probabilistic method and a retrieval method of fuzzy information are simultaneously studied for assessment of earthquake hazard, or earthquake prediction. Statistical indices of regional seismicity in three adjacent time intervals are used to predict an earthquake in the next interval. The indices are earthquake frequency, the maximum magnitude, and a parameter related to the average magnitude (or b-value) and their time derivatives. Applying the probabilistic method, we can estimate a probability for a large earthquake with magnitude larger than a certain threshold occurring in the next time interval in a given region. By using the retrieval method of fuzzy information we can classify time intervals into several classes according to the regional seismic activity in each time interval and then evaluate whether or not the next time interval belongs to seismically hazardous time interval with a large earthquake. Some examples of applying both methods to the North section of the North-South Seismic Zone in China are shown. The results obtained are in good agreement with actual earthquake history. A comparison of the probabilistic method with the method of fuzzy mathematics is made, and it is recommended that earthquake hazard be assessed by simultaneous use of both methods.
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Feng, Dy., Gu, Jp., Lin, Mz., Xu, Sx., Yu, Xj. (1985). Assessment of Earthquake Hazard by Simultaneous Use of the Statistical Method and the Method of Fuzzy Mathematics. In: Shimazaki, K., Stuart, W. (eds) Earthquake Prediction. Pure and applied geophysics. Birkhäuser, Basel. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-0348-6245-5_16
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