Are seismic waiting time distributions universal?
We show that seismic waiting time distributions in California and Iceland have many features in common as, for example, a power-law decay with exponent $α\approx 1.1$ for intermediate and with exponent $γ\approx 0.6$ for short waiting times. While the transition point between these two regimes scale...
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arXiv
2004
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| Online Access: | https://dx.doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.cond-mat/0410444 https://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0410444 |
| Summary: | We show that seismic waiting time distributions in California and Iceland have many features in common as, for example, a power-law decay with exponent $α\approx 1.1$ for intermediate and with exponent $γ\approx 0.6$ for short waiting times. While the transition point between these two regimes scales proportionally with the size of the considered area, the full distribution is not universal and depends in a non-trivial way on the geological area under consideration and its size. This is due to the spatial distribution of epicenters which does \emph{not} form a simple mono-fractal. Yet, the dependence of the waiting time distributions on the threshold magnitude seems to be universal. : 5 pages, 4 figures, accepted for publication in Geophys. Res. Lett |
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