Earthquake occurrence modeling is a rapidly developing research area.
This book deals with its critical issues, ranging from theoretical
advances to practical applications.
The introductory chapter outlines state-of-the-art earthquake modeling
approaches based on stochastic models. Chapter 2 presents seismogenesis
in association with the evolving stress field. Chapters 3 to 5 present
earthquake occurrence modeling by means of hidden (semi-)Markov models
and discuss associated characteristic measures and relative estimation
aspects. Further comparisons, the most important results and our
concluding remarks are provided in Chapters 6 and 7.