Levy Flights and Earthquakes
Soft Condensed Matter
2015-06-24 v1
Abstract
Levy flights representation is proposed to describe earthquake characteristics like the distribution of waiting times and position of hypocenters in a seismic region. Over 7500 microearthquakes and earthquakes from 1985 to 1994 were analyzed to test that its spatial and temporal distributions are such that can be described by a Levy flight with anomalous diffusion (in this case in a subdiffusive regime). Earthquake behavior is well described through Levy flights and Levy distribution functions such as results show.
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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0205564,
title = {Levy Flights and Earthquakes},
author = {O. Sotolongo-Costa and J. C. Antoranz and A. Posadas and F. Vidal and A. Vazquez},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0205564},
year = {2015}
}