the purpose of the present study is to compare the changes in b-value parameter using frequency-magnitude distribution for the data before and after the silakhor earthquake by gutenberg-richter relation. the variations of b-values are investigated using broadband iranian national seismic network center (bin). besides, spatial and time variations of the parameters were analyzed. the spatial vari...

We present an analytical solution and numerical tests of the epidemic-type aftershock (ETAS) model for aftershocks, which describes foreshocks, aftershocks and mainshocks on the same footing. In this model, each earthquake of magnitude m triggers aftershocks with a rate proportional to 10. The occurrence rate of aftershocks triggered by a single mainshock decreases with the time from the mainsh...

The physics of earthquake triggering together with simple assumptions of self-similarity impose the existence of a minimum magnitude m0 below which earthquakes do not trigger other earthquakes. Noting that the magnitude md of completeness of seismic catalogs has no reason to be the same as the magnitude m0 of the smallest triggering earthquake, we use quantitative fits and maximum likelihood in...

We analyzed the most relevant seismic sequences occurred from 1977 to 2007 in the FriuliVenezia Giulia region (northeastern Italy) and western Slovenia. The 8 aftershock sequences were triggered by low to moderate magnitude earthquakes with mainshock duration magnitude ranging from 3.7 to 5.6. The b-value of the Gutenberg-Richter law varies from 0.8 to 1.1. The modified Omori’s modeling of the ...

The potential locations of aftershocks, which can be large and damaging, are often forecast by calculating where the mainshock increased stress. We find, however, that the mainshock-induced stress field is often rapidly altered by aftershock-induced stresses. We find that the percentage of aftershocks that are secondary aftershocks, or aftershocks triggered by previous aftershocks, increases wi...

The branching aftershock sequence (BASS) model is a self-similar statistical model for earthquake aftershock sequences. A prescribed parent earthquake generates a first generation of daughter aftershocks. The magnitudes and times of occurrence of the daughters are obtained from statistical distributions. The first generation daughter aftershocks then become parent earthquakes that generate seco...

The inverse Omori law for foreshocks discovered in the 1970s states that the rate of earthquakes prior to a mainshock increases on average as a power law ∝ 1/(tc − t) p ′ of the time to the mainshock occurring at tc. Here, we show that this law results from the direct Omori law for aftershocks describing the power law decay ∼ 1/(t − tc) p of seismicity after an earthquake, provided that any ear...