Earthquake Triggering and InteractionHabilitationsschriftzur E rlangung des akademischen GradesDoctor re rum naturalium habilit atus ( Dr. re r. nat. habil.)in der W is sensc haf tsdisziplin Geoph y sikeing e reicht an derMa t hematisc h-N atur wis sen s c haf tlichen F ak ultätder U ni v ersität P otsdamv o nDr. Sebastian Hainzlg eboren am 2. Ok tober 1 966in F re ibu r gPotsdam, N o v ember 2009 Published online at the Institutional Repository of the University of Potsdam: URL http://opus.kobv.de/ubp/volltexte/2011/5009/ URN urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-50095 http://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-50095 Content1. Int roduction............................................................ 32. Ear t hq ua ke obser v ations ....................................... 63. Ear t hq ua ke models ............................................... 1 1 3.1 S t atistical modeling ....................................... 1 1 3.2 Ph y sics-based modeling ................................ 13 4. T imedependent seismic hazard ........................... 1 65. Summary and conclusions ................................... 206. A c kn o w led gement ............................................... 227. Bibliog raphy ........................................................ 228. Appended publications ........................................