Affiliation:
1. Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia , INGV, 00143 Rome RM , Italy
Abstract
SUMMARY
No.
The correlation between the magnitudes of earthquakes is a scientific question usually investigated by statistical seismologists. In the last decades, two opposite answers have been given to the problem of correlation of magnitudes: there is no correlation, that is the magnitude of earthquakes in a seismic catalogue can be considered as random sampling from the magnitude distribution; or, there is a correlation, that is the magnitude of a seismic event can influence the magnitude of the successive event. Here we used the Southern California seismic catalogue, properly treated to remove incompleteness, to answer the question, finding no significant correlation between magnitudes.
Publisher
Oxford University Press (OUP)
Subject
Geochemistry and Petrology,Geophysics
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