Tsallis-Based Nonextensive Analysis of the Southern California Seismicity

Author: Telesca Luciano  

Publisher: MDPI

E-ISSN: 1099-4300|13|7|1267-1280

ISSN: 1099-4300

Source: Entropy, Vol.13, Iss.7, 2011-07, pp. : 1267-1280

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Abstract

Nonextensive statistics has been becoming a very useful tool to describe the complexity of dynamic systems. Recently, analysis of the magnitude distribution of earthquakes has been increasingly used in the context of nonextensivity. In the present paper, the nonextensive analysis of the southern California earthquake catalog was performed. The results show that the nonextensivity parameter q lies in the same range as obtained for other different seismic areas, thus suggesting a sort of universal character in the nonextensive interpretation of seismicity.