Abe, Sumiyoshi; Suzuki, Norikazu - In: Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications 350 (2005) 2, pp. 588-596
The statistical property of the calm times, i.e., time intervals between successive earthquakes with arbitrary values of magnitude, is studied by analyzing the seismic time series data in California and Japan. It is found that the calm times obey the Zipf–Mandelbrot power law, exhibiting a new...