Scaling in spectral behavior of regional to single-fault seismicity

Abstract

Power spectral density was applied to analyse the time dynamics of seismicity in Taiwan. Scaling with exponent α ∼ 0.52 was found, revealing an identical power law behavior from a local fault plane up to a large region and from large earthquakes down to micro-earthquakes.

Fat tails, long-range correlations and multifractality as emergent properties in nonstationary time series

“…Scaling is also seen in many other phenomena, e.g. earth-quakes [28][29][30], material rupture [31], human mobility [32], and even in music [33,34]. Many of these properties are also present in systems with anomalous diffusion, which sometimes can be solved analytically [35][36][37][38].…”