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How Earthquake Risk Depends On The Closeness To A Fault: Symmetry-Based Geometric Analysis, Aaron A. Velasco, Solymar Ayala Cortez, Olga Kosheleva, Vladik Kreinovich

Departmental Technical Reports (CS)

Earthquakes can lead to a huge damage -- and the big problem is that they are very difficult to predict. To be more precise, it is very difficult to predict the time of a future earthquake. However, we can estimate which earthquake locations are probable. In general, earthquakes are mostly concentrated around the corresponding faults. For some faults, all the earthquakes occur in a narrow vicinity of the fault, while for other faults, areas more distant from the fault are risky as well. To properly estimate the earthquake's risk, it is important to understand when this risk is limited to …