Open AccessLaw for the distance between successive earthquakes
Author(s) -
Abe Sumiyoshi,
Suzuki Norikazu
Publication year - 2003
Publication title -
journal of geophysical research: solid earth
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.67
H-Index - 298
eISSN - 2156-2202
pISSN - 0148-0227
DOI - 10.1029/2002jb002220
Subject(s) - seismology , geology , history
Discovery of a new law for the three‐dimensional spatial distance between the foci of successive earthquakes is reported. Analyzing the seismic data taken between 1984 and 2001 in southern Californian, it is found that the cumulative distribution of the distances follows the modified Zipf‐Mandelbrot law, showing complexity of geometry of the events.