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Stress release model used to be applied to seismicity study of large historical earthquakes in a space of large scale. In this paper, we improve the stress release model, and discuss whether the stress release model is still applicable or not in the case of smaller spatio-temporal scale and weaker earthquakes. As an example of testing the model, we have analyzed the M≥6 earthquakes in recent about 100 years. The result shows that the stress release model is still applicable. The earthquake conditional probability intensity in Taiwan area is calculated with the improved stress release model. We see that accuracy of earthquake occurrence time predicted by the improved stress release model is higher than that by Poisson model in the test of retrospect earthquake prediction.
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Foundation item: National Key Basic Research Project (G98040706).
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Zhu, Sb., Shi, Yl. Improved stress release model: Application to the study of earthquake prediction in Taiwan area. Acta Seimol. Sin. 15, 171–178 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11589-002-0006-1
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