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Comment on "Earthquakes Descaled"

Other Condensed Matter 2007-05-23 v1 Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems Geophysics

Abstract

We show that Bak et al.'s unified scaling law cannot be trivially explained by a single Omori aftershock sequence. On the contrary, the spatial heterogeneity of seismicity plays a fundamental role in the unified scaling law, which implies that the law provides a way to quantify seismic patterns in space.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0509061,
  title  = {Comment on "Earthquakes Descaled"},
  author = {Alvaro Corral and Kim Christensen},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0509061},
  year   = {2007}
}

Comments

1 page. Tentative comment to Lindman et al., PRL 94, 108501 (2005)