Omori-Utsu law c-values associated with recent moderate earthquakes in Japan

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 99, Issue 2 A, 2009, Pages 884-891

  Enescu, Bogdan ^a   Mori, Jim ^b   Miyazawa, Masatoshi ^b   Kano, Yasuyuki ^b  

^a GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFTERSHOCK SEQUENCE; DECAY RATE; EARTHQUAKE CATALOGS; HIGH-PASS; JAPAN METEOROLOGICAL AGENCIES; LOWER BOUNDS; MAINSHOCK; POWER-LAW TIME DEPENDENCES; SCALING EXPONENT; SEISMIC STATION; STATISTICAL FLUCTUATIONS;

CONTROL THEORY; DECAY (ORGANIC); HIGH PASS FILTERS;

EARTHQUAKES;

AFTERSHOCK; EARTHQUAKE CATALOGUE; EARTHQUAKE EVENT; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; EARTHQUAKE MECHANISM; POWER LAW DISTRIBUTION; SEISMOGRAM;

ASIA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; JAPAN;

EID: 67649909558     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120080211     Document Type: Article

References (26)

1. Aki, K. (1965). Maximum likelihood estimate of b in the formula log N = a = bM and its confidence limits, Bull. Earthq. Res. Inst. Univ. Tokyo 43, 237-239.
2. Dieterich, J. (1994). A constitutive law for rate of earthquake production and its application to earthquake clustering, J. Geophys. Res. 99, 2601-2618.
3. Enescu, B., and K. Ito (2002). Spatial analysis of the frequency-magnitude distribution and decay rate of aftershock activity of the 2000 Western Tottori earthquake, Earth Planets Space 54, 847-859.
4. W 6.6), J. Geophys. Res. 112, B04310, doi 10.1029/2006JB004629.
5. Gomberg, J. (2001). The failure of earthquake failure models, J. Geophys. Res. 106, 16253-16263.
6. Gutenberg, R., and C. F. Richter (1944). Frequency of earthquakes in California, Bull. Seismol. Soc. Am. 34, 185-188.
7. Helmstetter, A., and B. E. Shaw (2006). Relation between stress heterogeneity and aftershock rate in the rate-and-state model, J. Geophys. Res. 111, B07304, doi 10.1029/2005JB004077.
8. Kagan, Y. Y. (2002a). Aftershock zone scaling, Bull. Seismol. Soc. Am. 92, 641-655.
9. Kagan, Y. Y. (2004). Short-term properties of earthquake catalogs and models of earthquake source, Bull. Seismol. Soc. Am. 94 no. 4, 1207-1228.
10. L 5.1 Anza, California, earthquake, Bull. Seismol. Soc. Am. 97, no. 3, 780-792, doi 10.1785/0120060116.
11. Marsan, D. (2006). Can coseismic stress variability suppress seismicity shadows? Insights from a rate-and-state model, J. Geophys. Res. 111, B06305, doi 10.1029/2005JB004060.
12. Mori, J., Y. Kano, and B. Enescu (2008). Comparison of early aftershock sequences for the 2004 Mid-Niigata and 2007 Noto Hanto earthquakes in central Japan, Earth Planets Space 60, 151-154.
13. Nanjo, K. Z., B. Enescu, R. Shcherbakov, D. L. Turcotte, T. Iwata, and Y. Ogata (2007). Decay of aftershock activity for Japanese earthquakes, J. Geophys. Res. 112, B08309, doi 10.1029/2006JB004754.
14. Ogata, Y. (1983). Estimation of the parameters in the modified Omori formula for aftershock frequencies by the maximum likelihood procedure, J. Phys. Earth 31, 115-124.
15. Okada, Y., K. Kasahara, S. Hori, K. Obara, S. Sekiguchi, H. Fujiwara, and A. Yamamoto (2004). Recent progress of seismic observation networks in Japan-Hi-net, F-net, K-NET and KiK-net-, Earth Planets Space 56, xv-xxviii.
16. Omori, F. (1894). On the aftershocks of earthquakes, J. Coll. Sci. Imp. Univ. Tokyo 7, 111-200.
17. w 6.0 Parkfield, California, earthquake, Geophys. Res. Lett. 33, L17307, doi 10.1029/2006GL026744.
18. Peng, Z., J. E. Vidale, M. Ishii, and A. Helmstetter (2007). Seismicity rate immediately before and after main shock rupture from high-frequency waveforms in Japan, J. Geophys. Res. 112, B03306, doi 10.1029/2006JB004386.
19. Rubin, A. M. (2002). Aftershocks of microearthquakes as probes of the mechanics of rupture, J. Geophys. Res. 107, no. B7, ESE3, 2142, doi 10.1029/2001JB000496.
20. Shcherbakov, R., and D. L. Turcotte (2006). Scaling properties of the Parkfield aftershock sequence, Bull. Seismol. Soc. Am. 94, S376-S384.
21. Shcherbakov, R., D. L. Turcotte, and J. E. Rundle (2004). A generalized Omori's law for earthquake aftershock decay, Geophys. Res. Lett. 31, L11613, doi 10.1029/2004GL019808.
22. Utsu, T. (1961). A statistical study on the occurrence of aftershocks, Geophysics 30, 521-605.
23. Utsu, T. (1965). A method for determining the value of b in formula log N = a = bM showing the magnitude-frequency relation for earthquakes (in Japanese), Geophys. Bull. Hokkaido Univ., 13, 99-103.
24. Utsu, T., Y. Ogata, and R. S. Matsu'ura (1995). The centenary of the Omori formula for a decay law of aftershock activity, J. Phys. Earth 43, 1-33.
25. Wiemer, S., and M. Wyss (2000). Minimum magnitude of complete reporting in earthquake catalogs: Examples from Alaska, the western United States, and Japan, Bull. Seismol. Soc. Am. 90, 859-869.
26. Woessner, J., S. Hainzl, F. Catalli, A. M. Lombardi, B. Enescu, M. Gerstenberger, and S. Wiemer (2008). Comparative testing of clustered seismicity models on prominent aftershock sequences, (Invited) Geophysical Research Abstracts 10, EGU2008-A-03098, EGU General Assembly Vienna, Austria.