Origin and nonuniversality of the earthquake interevent time distribution.
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چکیده
Many authors have modeled regional earthquake interevent times using a gamma distribution, whereby data collapse occurs under a simple rescaling of the data from different regions or time periods. We show, using earthquake data and simulations, that the distribution is fundamentally a bimodal mixture distribution dominated by correlated aftershocks at short waiting times and independent events at longer times. The much-discussed power-law segment often arises as a crossover between these two. We explain the variation of the distribution with region size and show that it is not universal.
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Physical review letters
دوره 102 16 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2009