ETAS
This repository contains a copy of the R package 'ETAS'.
The Epidemic Type Aftershock Sequence (ETAS) model is a spatio-temporal marked point process model. The 'ETAS' package fits the ETAS model to an earthquake catalog.
Installation
To install the package from CRAN, run the following in R:
install.packages('ETAS')You can also intall the current version of the package on GitHub by running:
require(remotes)
install_github('jalilian/ETAS')If remotes is not installed, you should first run:
install.packages('remotes')Alternatively, the package can be installed by
require(githubinstall)
githubinstall('ETAS')If 'githubinstall' is not installed, first run:
install.packages('githubinstall')Parallel computing
As of version 0.3, a new C++ code is implemented using the Rcpp package which allows multi-thread parallel computing on multi-core processors with OpenMP and suported platforms. The argument nthreads in etas function determines the number of threads to be used in the parallel region of the code. The detectCores function in parallel package can be consulted to find out the overall number of available threads on a given machine:
parallel::detectCores()Parallel computing (nthreads > 1) reduces the computation time for large earthquake catalogs. However, resource usage and limitations should be considered when setting nthreads.