Document Actions
James Holliday et.al. Publish "Space-Time Clustering and Correlations of Major Earthquakes" in PRL
James R. Holliday, John B. Rundle, Donald L. Turcotte, William Klein Kristy F. Tiampo, and Andrea Donnellan have published their recent paper, "Space-Time Clustering and Correlations of Major Earthquakes" in this week's Physical Review Letters.
Paper
"Space-Time Clustering and Correlations of Major Earthquakes" (pdf)
Abstract
Earthquake occurrence in nature is thought to result from correlated elastic stresses, leading to clustering in space and time. We show that the occurrence of major earthquakes in California correlates with time intervals when fluctuations in small earthquakes are suppressed relative to the long term average. We estimate a probability of less than 1% that this coincidence is due to random clustering.
Wildfire Statistics Workshop