Frequency of Earthquakes in California.

Gutenberg, B., & Richter, C. F. (1944). Frequency of Earthquakes in California. Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, 34(4), 185-188.

Type

Journal article

Intellectual base

Primary research

Year

1944

Volume

34

Issue

4

Pages

185-188

DOI

10.1785/bssa0340040185

DOI registrant

Seismological Society of America

Link

https://doi.org/10.1785/BSSA0340040185

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biology_ecology, physics, statistics_experimental_design

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4 citations across 4 artifacts.

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Primes

• Heavy-Tailed Distributions
  • Geophysics and natural hazards: Earthquake energies (the Gutenberg-Richter law), flood magnitudes, and forest-fire sizes follow power laws; the rare megaquake releases more energy than countless small tremors combined, and the design event is the extreme rather than the average.

    This sourceEstablishes the Gutenberg–Richter power-law relation between earthquake magnitude and frequency, the canonical geophysical heavy tail in which the rare megaquake dominates released energy (D54-518).

• Punctuated Equilibrium
  • In plate tectonics, elastic strain accumulates along a locked fault for decades, then releases in a seconds-long rupture, with the Gutenberg-Richter energy distribution as the signature.

    This sourceEstablishes the power-law (Gutenberg–Richter) magnitude-frequency distribution of earthquakes — the heavy-tailed energy signature of stick-slip release.

• Scale Invariance

  • This sourcePower-law magnitude-frequency distribution; foundational for understanding scale-free distributions in natural systems.

Domain-specific

• Gutenberg–Richter law
  • … completeness magnitude, cumulative count N at or above M, log-ten relation and a and b parameters, estimation and uncertainty, upper-tail deviations and temporal or spatial variation are explicit. to An applied instance preserves the invariant under changed notation, scale, dataset, jurisdiction, or implementation..

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