. ge o - ph ] 6 A ug 2 00 6 The application of the modified form of B̊ath ’ s law to the North Anatolian Fault Zone
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Earthquakes and aftershock sequences follow several empirical scaling laws: One of these laws is Båth's law for the magnitude of the largest aftershock. In this work, Modified Form of Båth's Law and its application to KOERI data have been studied. Båth's law states that the differences in magnitudes between mainshocks and their largest detected aftershocks are approximately constant, independent of the magnitudes of mainshocks and it is about 1.2. In the modified form of Båth's law for a given mainshock we get the inferred largest aftershock of this mainshock by using an extrapolation of the Gutenberg-Richter frequency-magnitude statistics of the aftershock sequence. To test the applicability of this modified law, 6 large earthquakes that occurred in Turkey between 1950 and 2004 with magnitudes equal to or greater than 6.9 have been considered. These earthquakes take place on the North Anatolian Fault Zone. Additionally, in this study the partitioning of energy during a mainshock-aftershock sequence was also calculated in two different ways. It is shown that most of the energy is released in the mainshock. The constancy of the differences in magnitudes between mainshocks and their largest aftershocks is an indication of scale-invariant behavior of aftershock sequences.
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