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This paper reviews different approaches to modelling two key but opposing features of earthquake data, their tendency towards clustering and their tendency towards regular or periodic behaviour.
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Vere-Jones, D. (1994). Statistical Models for Earthquake Occurrence: Clusters, Cycles and Characteristic Earthquakes. In: Bozdogan, H., et al. Proceedings of the First US/Japan Conference on the Frontiers of Statistical Modeling: An Informational Approach. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-0854-6_6
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