Physics – Condensed Matter – Disordered Systems and Neural Networks
Scientific paper
2002-08-17
Physics
Condensed Matter
Disordered Systems and Neural Networks
14 pages, 5 figures
Scientific paper
The statistical properties of the seismic time series data in southern California are studies. In particular, the calm time intervals, which are the time intervals between successive significant earthquakes above the fixed threshold value of magnitude, are analyzed. It is found that the system undergoes a series of transition between stationary states, whose cumulative waiting time distributions all obey the Zipf-Mandelbrot law, exhibiting a new scale free nature of earthquakes. Dependencies of the two parameters characterizing the Zipf-Mandelbrot distribution on the threshold are also discussed.
Abe Sumiyoshi
Suzuki Norikazu
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