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GP-ETAS: semiparametric Bayesian inference for the spatio-temporal epidemic type aftershock sequence model

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Molkenthin,  Christian
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Donner,  Christian
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Reich,  Sebastian
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Zöller,  Gert
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Hainzl,  S.
2.1 Physics of Earthquakes and Volcanoes, 2.0 Geophysics, Departments, GFZ Publication Database, Deutsches GeoForschungsZentrum;

Holschneider,  Matthias
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Opper,  Manfred
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Molkenthin, C., Donner, C., Reich, S., Zöller, G., Hainzl, S., Holschneider, M., Opper, M. (2022): GP-ETAS: semiparametric Bayesian inference for the spatio-temporal epidemic type aftershock sequence model. - Statistics and Computing, 32, 29.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11222-022-10085-3


Cite as: https://gfzpublic.gfz-potsdam.de/pubman/item/item_5011428
Abstract
The spatio-temporal epidemic type aftershock sequence (ETAS) model is widely used to describe the self-exciting nature of earthquake occurrences. While traditional inference methods provide only point estimates of the model parameters, we aim at a fully Bayesian treatment of model inference, allowing naturally to incorporate prior knowledge and uncertainty quantification of the resulting estimates. Therefore, we introduce a highly flexible, non-parametric representation for the spatially varying ETAS background intensity through a Gaussian process (GP) prior. Combined with classical triggering functions this results in a new model formulation, namely the GP-ETAS model. We enable tractable and efficient Gibbs sampling by deriving an augmented form of the GP-ETAS inference problem. This novel sampling approach allows us to assess the posterior model variables conditioned on observed earthquake catalogues, i.e., the spatial background intensity and the parameters of the triggering function. Empirical results on two synthetic data sets indicate that GP-ETAS outperforms standard models and thus demonstrate the predictive power for observed earthquake catalogues including uncertainty quantification for the estimated parameters. Finally, a case study for the l’Aquila region, Italy, with the devastating event on 6 April 2009, is presented.