2006/04/25 by Álvaro Corral, Alvaro Corral, Corral, Alvaro
Earth and Planetary Sciences · Economics, Econometrics and Finance · Physics and Astronomy · #Complex Systems and Time Series Analysis #Earthquake Detection and Analysis #FOS: Physical sciences #Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other) #Statistical Mechanics and Entropy #cond-mat.other
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.cond-mat/0604574
Proceedings of the Workshop Models of Earthquake: Physics Approaches, Calcutta, December 2005. 31 pages
arxiv created 2006/04/25 · openalex publication_date 2006/04/25 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
A review of the statistical properties of earthquakes is provided, centered mainly in the work of the author (apologies for that). We explain the scaling law for the recurrence-time distributions, its universal character for stationary seismicity and for Omori sequences, the counterintuitive phenomenon of decreasing hazard with time and the increasing of the expected residual recurrence time, the relation of the scaling law with a renormalization-group transformation, and the correlations between recurrence times and magnitudes. Finally, the connections with Bak et al.'s unified scaling law are analyzed.