Earthquake Statistics and Earthquake Geography

Evidence for Strain Accrual in the Eastern Tennessee Seismic Zone from Earthquake Statistics

Seismological Research Letters ◽

10.1785/0220180052 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 90 (1) ◽

pp. 446-451 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Will Levandowski ◽

Christine A. Powell

Keyword(s):

Seismic Zone ◽

Earthquake Statistics ◽

Eastern Tennessee Seismic Zone

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EARTHQUAKE STATISTICS IN THE EASTERN TENNESSEE SEISMIC ZONE ARE INCONSISTENT WITH AN AFTERSHOCK SEQUENCE

10.1130/abs/2018se-312418 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Christine Powell ◽

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Will Levandowski

Keyword(s):

Aftershock Sequence ◽

Seismic Zone ◽

Earthquake Statistics ◽

Eastern Tennessee Seismic Zone

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Earthquake size & descriptive earthquake statistics

Foundations of Modern Global Seismology ◽

10.1016/b978-0-12-815679-7.00014-8 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 197-222

Author(s):

Charles J. Ammon ◽

Aaron A. Velasco ◽

Thorne Lay ◽

Terry C. Wallace

Keyword(s):

Earthquake Statistics ◽

Earthquake Size

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A mechanical model for the statistics of earthquakes, magnitude, moment, and fault distribution

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America ◽

10.1785/bssa0670030849 ◽

1977 ◽

Vol 67 (3) ◽

pp. 849-861

Author(s):

Michele Caputo

Keyword(s):

Elastic Energy ◽

Seismic Moment ◽

Mechanical Model ◽

Empirical Relation ◽

Maximum Magnitude ◽

Stick Slip ◽

Earthquake Statistics ◽

The World ◽

Empirical Law ◽

Fault Distribution

abstract A mechanical model is presented to explain the Ishimoto Iida empirical law for earthquake statistics log n ( M ) = α ¯ - b M where n(M) dM is the number of earthquakes in the interval of magnitude M, M + dM. The model fits properly the statistics of earthquakes of all of the regions of the world for which exist reliable catalogs of earthquakes (Ranalli, 1974) although the mechanism of the model considered is specifically that of stick slip. The same model explains the empirical law for the statistics of the seismic moment Mo log n o ( M o ) = α ¯ o − b ¯ o log M o and explains also the scatter of the values in the empirical relation between Mo and M. Finally if one knows the rate at which the elastic energy is stored in a region of the Earth's crust, and if a catalog of earthquakes of the region is available, this model gives an estimate of the number and size of faults of the region, and also of the maximum magnitude and seismic moment possible in the region.

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