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Nonextensive triplet in geological faults system

Geophysics 2015-06-15 v1

Abstract

The San Andreas fault (SAF) in the USA is one of the most investigated self-organizing systems in nature. In this paper, we studied some geophysical properties of the SAF system in order to analyze the behavior of earthquakes in the context of Tsallis's qq--Triplet. To that end, we considered 134,573 earthquake events in magnitude interval 2m<82\leq m<8, taken from the Southern Earthquake Data Center (SCEDC, 1932 - 2012). The values obtained ("qq--Triplet"\equiv{\{qqstat_{stat},qqsen_{sen},qqrel_{rel}}\}) reveal that the qstatq_{stat}--Gaussian behavior of the aforementioned data exhibit long-range temporal correlations. Moreover, qsenq_{sen} exhibits quasi-monofractal behavior with a Hurst exponent of 0.87.

Cite

@article{arxiv.1304.7646,
  title  = {Nonextensive triplet in geological faults system},
  author = {D. B. de Freitas and G. S. França and T. M. Scheerer and C. S. Vilar and R. Silva},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1304.7646},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

5 pages, 6 figures, EPL accepted

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