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Self-similar branching of aftershock sequences

✍ Scribed by James R. Holliday; Donald L. Turcotte; John B. Rundle

Publisher: Elsevier Science
Year: 2008
Tongue: English
Weight: 763 KB
Volume: 387
Category: Article
ISSN: 0378-4371
DOI: 10.1016/j.physa.2007.09.045

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✦ Synopsis

In this paper we propose a branching aftershock sequence (BASS) model for seismicity. We suggest that the BASS model is a preferred alternative to the widely studied epidemic type aftershock sequence (ETAS) model. In the BASS model an initial, or seed, earthquake is specified. The subsequent earthquakes are obtained from the statistical distributions of magnitude, time, and location. The magnitude scaling is based on a combination of the Gutenberg-Richter scaling relation and the modified Båth's law for the scaling relation of aftershocks relative to the magnitude of the seed earthquake. Omori's law specifies the distribution of earthquake times, and a modified form of Omori's law specifies the distribution of earthquake locations. Since the BASS model is specified by the four scaling relations, it is fully self-similar. This is not the case for ETAS. We also give a deterministic version of BASS and show that it satisfies Tokunaga side-branching statistics in a similar way to diffusion-limited aggregation (DLA).

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