TY - JOUR
T1 - Time-decreasing hazard and increasing time until the next earthquake
AU - Corral, Álvaro
PY - 2005/1/1
Y1 - 2005/1/1
N2 - The existence of a slowly always decreasing probability density for the recurrence times of earthquakes in the stationary case implies that the occurrence of an event at a given instant becomes more unlikely as time since the previous event increases. Consequently, the expected waiting time to the next earthquake increases with the elapsed time, that is, the event moves away fast to the future. We have found direct empirical evidence of this counterintuitive behavior in two worldwide catalogs as well as in diverse regional catalogs, Universal scaling functions describe the phenomenon well. ©2005 The American Physical Society.
AB - The existence of a slowly always decreasing probability density for the recurrence times of earthquakes in the stationary case implies that the occurrence of an event at a given instant becomes more unlikely as time since the previous event increases. Consequently, the expected waiting time to the next earthquake increases with the elapsed time, that is, the event moves away fast to the future. We have found direct empirical evidence of this counterintuitive behavior in two worldwide catalogs as well as in diverse regional catalogs, Universal scaling functions describe the phenomenon well. ©2005 The American Physical Society.
U2 - 10.1103/PhysRevE.71.017101
DO - 10.1103/PhysRevE.71.017101
M3 - Article
SN - 1539-3755
VL - 71
SP - 1
EP - 7
JO - Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics
JF - Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics
IS - 1
ER -