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However, the ETAS model is rather complex and for regional applications it requires many parameters to be calibrated. The calibration is most effective when a long instrumental catalog complete to low-magnitude events is available. However, this is rarely the case. Our study investigates the possibility of using the ETAS model with parameter values calibrated for a region with many recent sequences (namely central Italy) to simulate realistic sequences in two other crustal seismicity regions, namely T\u00fcrkiye and Croatia. We compare three options (1) using a set of ETAS parameters calibrated based on local data, (2) fixing most ETAS parameters to values derived from a well-studied region with many recent sequences (central Italy) while locally calibrating the total background rate and productivity term (SimplETAS [SE] parameter set, akin to the simplETAS methodology of Mancini and Marzocchi (2023), and (3) fixing all ETAS parameters to values from central Italy except for the total background rate (Set of Central Italy [SCI] parameter set). The results show that simplified approaches based on central Italy data (SE and SCI) can produce simulated earthquake sequences that align well with the observed data even for Croatia and T\u00fcrkiye. This reflects the applicability of modeling earthquake sequences for hazard and risk applications in many crustal regions where good quality observed instrumental catalogs complete to low-magnitude events are not available or they are available but do not contain significant sequences.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1785\/0120240232","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2025,1,30]],"date-time":"2025-01-30T12:18:29Z","timestamp":1738239509000},"page":"562-577","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":1,"title":["Applying the ETAS Model to Simulate Earthquake Sequences for Hazard Assessment in Crustal Seismicity Regions with Scarce Data"],"prefix":"10.1785","volume":"115","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-5002-2222","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Nevena","family":"\u0160ip\u010di\u0107","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"1RED Risk Engineering + Development, Pavia, Italy"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-9151-0361","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Mohsen","family":"Kohrangi","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"1RED Risk Engineering + Development, Pavia, Italy"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-9114-1516","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Warner","family":"Marzocchi","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"2Scuola Superiore Meridionale, Department of Earth, Environmental, and Resources Sciences, Universit\u00e0 degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, Naples, Italy"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-6107-9451","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Paolo","family":"Bazzurro","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"3Scuola Universitaria Superiore IUSS Pavia, University School for Advanced Studies IUSS Pavia, Pavia, Italy"}]}],"member":"790","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2025,1,30]]},"reference":[{"key":"2025032013463783400_rf1","first-page":"237","article-title":"Maximum likelihood estimate of b in the formula log N=a\u2013bM and its confidence limits","author":"Aki","year":"1965","journal-title":"Bull. 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