The statistics of earthquakes in Southern California
- 1 December 1964
- journal article
- Published by Seismological Society of America (SSA) in Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America
- Vol. 54 (6A) , 1871-1873
- https://doi.org/10.1785/bssa05406a1871
Abstract
A statistically significant series of earthquakes in Southern California, 1934-1957, variously filtered to avoid aftershocks and events outside a localized area, has been tested for a Poisson distribution. It has been found that, for any of several methods of filtering, the data do not fit a Poisson distribution and hence a causal connection between weak earthquake events is inferred. The conclusion is in accord with that of Aki for large events.Keywords
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