Background seismicity and seismic correlations

Bogdan Felix Apostol

doi:10.59400/jam1592

Background seismicity and seismic correlations

Bogdan Felix Apostol Institute of Earth's Physics, 0777125 Magurele, Romania

Article ID: 1592

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.59400/jam1592

Keywords: background seismicity; time-magnitude correlations; temporal correlations; foreshocks for forecasting

Abstract

The law of energy accumulation in the earthquake focus is presented, together with the temporal, energy and magnitude distributions of regular, background earthquakes. The background seismicity is characterized by two parameters—the seismicity rate and the Gutenberg-Richter parameter, which can be extracted by fitting the empirical earthquake distributions. Time-magnitude and temporal correlations are presented, and the information they can provide is discussed. For foreshocks the time-magnitude correlations can be used to forecast (with limitations) the mainshock. The temporal correlations indicate a decrease of the Gutenberg-Richter parameter for small magnitudes, in agreement with empirical observations for foreshocks. On the other hand, the aftershocks may be viewed as independent earthquakes with changed seismic conditions, so they may exhibit an increase of this parameter, also in accordance with empirical observations. The roll-off effect for small magnitudes and the modified Gutenberg-Richter distribution are discussed for temporal corralations, and the derivation of the Bath’s law is briefly reviewed.

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