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View SchemaA model for the distribution of aftershock waiting times
| Authors | Robert Shcherbakov, Gleb Yakovlev, Donald L. Turcotte, John B. Rundle |
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| ArXiv ID | physics/0508050 |
| URL | https://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0508050 |
| DOI | 10.1103/PhysRevLett.95.218501 |
| Journal | Phys. Rev. Lett., v.95 (2005) 218501 |
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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