Comment on “Do Earthquakes Exhibit Self-Organized Criticality?”
- 6 October 2005
- journal article
- editorial
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 95 (15)
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.95.159801
Abstract
It is shown that earthquakes do not know how large they will become, at least from the information collected at seismic catalogs. In other words, the magnitude is independent on previous magnitudes as well as on the waiting time between previous earthquakes. In contrast, the time to the next event does depend on the magnitude. Also it is argued that SOC systems do not necessarily shown a Poisson-type behavior in time, and SOC does not exclude the possibility of some degree of prediction.Comment: Tentative comment to Yang, Du, Ma, PRL 92, 228501 (2004Keywords
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