Homogeneous earthquake catalogue for Northeast region of India using robust statistical approaches

ABSTRACTRegular seismic hazard assessment requires essentially an updated and refined homogenous earthquake catalogue for the study region. Here, we have compiled the earthquake data for Northeast region of India in a chronological order from International Seismological Centre and Global Centroid Moment Tensor databases during the period 1 January 1900 to 31 April 2016. For this purpose, the regression techniques such as least square (SR), inverse least square (ISR), orthogonal (OR) and generalized orthogonal (GOR) which is the best one, out of that are employed for converting different types of magnitude scales, such as surface-wave magnitude (MS), body-wave magnitude (mb) and local magnitude (ML) into a single homogenized moment magnitude, MW. The homogenized catalogue is then treated with ‘runs test’ to estimate p-value of 0.8421 which suggest no spurious reporting on the catalogue. The prepared catalogue has also been declustered using standard procedure. Furthermore, the magnitude of completeness for...