Universality in solar flare and earthquake occurrence

Details Universality in solar flare and earthquake occurrence Universality in solar flare and earthquake occurrence

2006-02-08

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0602208v1

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 051102 (2006)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Statistical Mechanics

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevLett.96.051102

Earthquakes and solar flares are phenomena involving huge and rapid releases of energy characterized by complex temporal occurrence. By analysing available experimental catalogs, we show that the stochastic processes underlying these apparently different phenomena have universal properties. Namely both problems exhibit the same distributions of sizes, inter-occurrence times and the same temporal clustering: we find afterflare sequences with power law temporal correlations as the Omori law for seismic sequences. The observed universality suggests a common approach to the interpretation of both phenomena in terms of the same driving physical mechanism.

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