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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Main Authors: Davidsen, Jörn, Goltz, Christian
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Published: arXiv 2004
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Statistical Mechanics cond-mat.stat-mech
Geophysics physics.geo-ph
FOS Physical sciences
Iceland
Online Access:https://dx.doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.cond-mat/0410444
https://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0410444
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spelling ftdatacite:10.48550/arxiv.cond-mat/0410444 2023-05-15T16:49:00+02:00 Are seismic waiting time distributions universal? Davidsen, Jörn Goltz, Christian 2004 https://dx.doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.cond-mat/0410444 https://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0410444 unknown arXiv https://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2004gl020892 Assumed arXiv.org perpetual, non-exclusive license to distribute this article for submissions made before January 2004 http://arxiv.org/licenses/assumed-1991-2003/ Statistical Mechanics cond-mat.stat-mech Geophysics physics.geo-ph FOS Physical sciences article-journal Article ScholarlyArticle Text 2004 ftdatacite https://doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.cond-mat/0410444 https://doi.org/10.1029/2004gl020892 2022-04-01T16:19:12Z 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 Text Iceland DataCite Metadata Store (German National Library of Science and Technology)
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Geophysics physics.geo-ph
FOS Physical sciences
Davidsen, Jörn
Goltz, Christian
Are seismic waiting time distributions universal?
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description 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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title Are seismic waiting time distributions universal?
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title_full Are seismic waiting time distributions universal?
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http://arxiv.org/licenses/assumed-1991-2003/
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