Heavy-Tailed Distributions in Disaster Analysis

From the reviews:

“This book is, therefore, timely and should be welcomed by those working in earthquake forecasting … . an important reference text that should be useful to those seeking to estimate loss and quantify probabilities of rare events using the conventional approach of nipping and tucking the seismic database to the Poissonian figure. Those seeking to model the real Earth seismic expression may also find it a useful start point.” (Joan L. Latchman, Mathematical Geosciences, Vol. 43, 2011)