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Scaling of earthquake waiting times and the Olami-Feder-Christensen model

2005/05/02 by Hedges, Morgan, Takacs, George
#Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph) #FOS: Physical sciences #Geophysics (physics.geo-ph)

paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.physics/0505015

Abstract

Waiting-time statistics are generated from the Olami-Feder-Christensen model and shown to mimic some aspects of real seismicity. Preliminary analysis of the model data implies a recently proposed universal scaling law for the distribution in seismicity may be due to a mixing between aftershocks and uncorrelated event pairs, thus having limited application. Earthquake catalog data is also presented to support the argument.

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