Physics – Geophysics
Scientific paper
2010-04-19
Physical Review Letters 104, 158501 (2010)
Physics
Geophysics
3 figures
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevLett.104.158501
The interevent time distribution characterizes the temporal occurrence in seismic catalogs. Universal scaling properties of this distribution have been evidenced for entire catalogs and seismic sequences. Recently, these universal features have been questioned and some criticisms have been raised. We investigate the existence of universal scaling properties by analyzing a Californian catalog and by means of numerical simulations of an epidemic-type model. We show that the interevent time distribution exhibits a universal behavior over the entire temporal range if four characteristic times are taken into account. The above analysis allows us to identify the scaling form leading to universal behavior and explains the observed deviations. Furthermore, it provides a tool to identify the dependence on the mainshock magnitude of the c parameter that fixes the onset of the power law decay in the Omori law.
Arcangelis Lucilla de
Bottiglieri Milena
Godano Cataldo
Lippiello Eugenio
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