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most citedEstimating Magnitude Completeness in Earthquake Catalogs: A Comparative Study of Catalog-based Methods

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Robust Model Selection for Discovery of Latent Mechanistic Processes

Jiawei Li, Nguyen Nguyen, Meng Lai +2

When learning interpretable latent structures using model-based approaches, even small deviations from modeling assumptions can lead to inferential results that are not mechanistic…

physics.geo-ph2025

Design and Implementation of a 25-Yr Pseudoprospective Earthquake Forecasting Experiment in China (AoyuX)

Jiawei Li, Qingyuan Zhang, Didier Sornette

Forecast models in statistical seismology are commonly evaluated using log-likelihood (LL) scores for the full distribution of earthquake counts. However, fat tails and out-…

physics.geo-ph2025

Unifying the Gutenberg-Richter Law with Probabilistic Catalog Completeness

Jiawei Li, Xinyi Wang, Didier Sornette

We propose a probabilistic approach to modeling catalog incompleteness through four candidate augmented Gutenberg-Richter (GR) laws, which incorporates incompleteness into the freq…

physics.geo-ph2025★ 1 cited

Haicheng and Tangshan Earthquakes as potential Dragon-Kings

Jiawei Li, Didier Sornette

The dragon-king earthquake hypothesis proposes that some very large to great earthquakes are not merely the extreme end of the frequency-magnitude Gutenberg-Richter distribution (F…

physics.geo-ph2025★ 7 cited

Estimating Magnitude Completeness in Earthquake Catalogs: A Comparative Study of Catalog-based Methods

Xinyi Wang, Jiawei Li, Ao Feng +1

Without rigorous attention to the completeness of earthquake catalogs, claims of new discoveries or forecasting skills cannot be deemed credible. Therefore, estimating the complete…

physics.geo-ph2024

New horizon in the statistical physics of earthquakes: Dragon-king theory and dragon-king earthquakes

Jiawei Li, Didier Sornette, Zhongliang Wu +1

A systematic quantitative investigation into whether the mechanisms of large earthquakes are unique could significantly deepen our understanding of fault rupture and seismicity pat…

physics.geo-ph2024★ 6 cited

Revisiting Seismicity Criticality: A New Framework for Bias Correction of Statistical Seismology Model Calibrations

Jiawei Li, Didier Sornette, Zhongliang Wu +2

The Epidemic-Type Aftershock Sequences (ETAS) model and its variants effectively capture the space-time clustering of seismicity, setting the standard for earthquake forecasting. A…