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Small-world structure of earthquake network

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  • Abe, Sumiyoshi
  • Suzuki, Norikazu

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Discoveries of the scale-free and small-world features are reported on the network constructed from the seismic data. It is shown that the connectivity distribution decays as a power law, and the value of the degrees of separation, i.e., the characteristic path length, between two earthquakes (as the vertices) chosen at random takes a small value between 2 and 3. The clustering coefficient is also calculated and is found to be about 10 times larger than that in the case of the completely random network. These features highlight a novel aspect of seismicity as a complex phenomenon.

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  • Abe, Sumiyoshi & Suzuki, Norikazu, 2004. "Small-world structure of earthquake network," Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, Elsevier, vol. 337(1), pages 357-362.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:phsmap:v:337:y:2004:i:1:p:357-362
    DOI: 10.1016/j.physa.2004.01.059
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