Journal article

Publication year: 2008

Journal: European Physical Society Letters

Volume number: 81

Issue number: 6

ISSN: 0295-5075

eISSN: 1286-4854

DOI Link: https://doi.org/10.1209/0295-5075/81/69001

Publisher: IOP Publishing

Abstract: 
We study seismic records in regimes of stationary seismic activity in Northern and Southern California. Our analysis suggests that the earthquakes are long-term power law correlated with a correlation exponent. close to 0.4. We show explicitly that the long-term correlations can explain both the fluctuations of magnitudes and interoccurrence times ( between events above a certain magnitude M) and, without any fit parameter, the scaling form of the distribution function of the interoccurrence times in the seismic records, recently obtained by Corral ( Phys. Rev. Lett., 92 ( 2004) 108501). Copyright (c) EPLA, 2008

Harvard Citation style: Lennartz, S., Livina, V., Bunde, A. and Havlin, S. (2008) Long-term memory in earthquakes and the distribution of interoccurrence times, European Physical Society Letters, 81(6), Article 69001. https://doi.org/10.1209/0295-5075/81/69001

APA Citation style: Lennartz, S., Livina, V., Bunde, A., & Havlin, S. (2008). Long-term memory in earthquakes and the distribution of interoccurrence times. European Physical Society Letters. 81(6), Article 69001. https://doi.org/10.1209/0295-5075/81/69001