A model for the distribution of aftershock waiting times
Geophysics
2007-05-23 v1 Statistical Mechanics
Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability
Abstract
In this work the distribution of inter-occurrence times between earthquakes in aftershock sequences is analyzed and a model based on a non-homogeneous Poisson (NHP) process is proposed to quantify the observed scaling. In this model the generalized Omori's law for the decay of aftershocks is used as a time-dependent rate in the NHP process. The analytically derived distribution of inter-occurrence times is applied to several major aftershock sequences in California to confirm the validity of the proposed hypothesis.
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@article{arxiv.physics/0508050,
title = {A model for the distribution of aftershock waiting times},
author = {Robert Shcherbakov and Gleb Yakovlev and Donald L. Turcotte and John B. Rundle},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:physics/0508050},
year = {2007}
}
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4 pages, 3 figures