An Earthquake Clustering Method Based on Soft Distance Calculations

Abstract

The traditional cluster analysis method based on the true distance is not conducive to the accurate calculation of earthquake different fault rupture propagation and healing rate. This paper proposed and gave a new clustering method based on soft distance calculations. The clustering process based on soft distance calculations, the calculation method for soft distances and the specific clustering algorithm based on soft distances are given. For the real sample points of strong earthquake as a data source, we use this clustering method and other traditional clustering methods to cluster and analysis the data source, and analysis results have showed that the clustering method obtained the same cluster center with the earth stress field evolution, so this method has objective truth. The cluster analysis method for the earthquake fault zones in the accurate calculation of the next strong earthquake provides a good basis for the calculations.