Implications of a conservation law for the distribution of earthquake sizes
- 1 December 1991
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review A
- Vol. 44 (12) , R7869-R7872
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physreva.44.r7869
Abstract
We investigate the implications that a sum rule for the average velocity of a geological fault has on the distribution of earthquake sizes. Under general conditions the exponent B of the Gutenberg-Richter law for the distribution of small seismic moments is shown to obey B1.Keywords
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