Generalized Omori-Utsu law for aftershock sequences in southern California

作者：Davidsen J^*; Gu C; Baiesi M

来源：Geophysical Journal International, 2015, 201(2): 965-978.

DOI：10.1093/gji/ggv061

• Persistence, memory, correlations, clustering
• Earthquake interaction, forecasting, and prediction
• Statistical seismology.

We investigate the validity of a proposed generalized Omori-Utsu law for the aftershock sequences for the Landers, Hector Mine, Northridge and Superstition Hills earthquakes, the four largest events in the southern California catalogue we analyse. This law unifies three of the most prominent empirical laws of statistical seismology-the Gutenberg-Richter law, the Omori-Utsu law, and a generalized version of Bath's law-in a formula casting the parameters in the Omori-Utsu law as a function of the lower magnitude cutoff m(c) for the aftershocks considered. By applying a recently established general procedure for identifying aftershocks, we confirm that the generalized Omori-Utsu law provides a good approximation for the observed rates overall. In particular, we provide convincing evidence that the characteristic time c is not constant but a genuine

• 出版日期2015-5