alleryStart learning →Why might yearly counts of big earthquakes fail to be Poisson?
ACounts are never whole
BA quake can raise aftershocks
CQuakes never occur twice
DQuakes occur at fixed dates
Answer & Solution
Correct answer: B. A quake can raise aftershocks
A big quake raises the probability of similar aftershocks, so events are not independent.
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