“…While Yadav et al (2010b) observed that the gamma model is the most suitable model, Pasari and Dikshit (2015a), from a comprehensive list of 11 probability models, remarked that the gamma, exponentiated exponential, and Weibull models provide the best fit to the observed interoccurrence times. In the northwest Himalaya and its vicinity, including part of India, Pakistan, Hindukush, Pamirs, Mongolia, and Tien-Shan, remarkable efforts towards probabilistic assessment of earthquake hazard parameters are made by Parvez and Ram (1997), Shanker et al (2007), Yadav (2009), Yadav et al (2010aYadav et al ( , 2012aYadav et al ( , 2012bYadav et al ( , 2013aYadav et al ( , 2013bYadav et al ( , 2015, and Chingtham et al (2016). Shanker et al (2007) used Gumbel's third asymptotic distribution of extreme value probability model in three seismotectonic zones in the Hindukush-Pamir northwest Himalaya region to assess time-dependent seismicity in these regions.…”