Shakingstats (Version 1.0.0)
September 3, 2025
shakingstats is a Python package for calculating earthquake statistics from continuous seismic amplitudes. It calculates the time-varying amplitude completeness (A_C) and amplitude-based b‑value (b_A) by fitting the joint distribution of seismic noise and earthquake shaking. It also provides an implementation of the b-positive (β+) method for comparison to catalog-based statistics.
Citation Information
| Publication Year | 2025 |
|---|---|
| Title | Shakingstats (Version 1.0.0) |
| DOI | 10.5066/P1TNCMFF |
| Authors | Timothy H Clements |
| Product Type | Software Release |
| Record Source | USGS Asset Identifier Service (AIS) |
| USGS Organization | Earthquake Science Center |
| Rights | This work is marked with CC0 1.0 Universal |
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