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EPL
Volume 102, Number 3, May 2013
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| Article Number | 39001 | |
| Number of page(s) | 5 | |
| Section | Geophysics, Astronomy and Astrophysics | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1209/0295-5075/102/39001 | |
| Published online | 21 May 2013 | |
Nonextensive triplet in a geological faults system
1 Departamento de Física, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte - 59072-970 Natal, RN, Brazil
2 Observatorio Sismologico- IG/UnB, Campus Universitário Darcy Ribeiro SG 13 Asa Norte 70910-900 Brasília, Brazil
3 Instituto de Física, Universidade Federal da Bahia, Campus Universitário de Ondina 40210-340 Salvador, Brazil
4 Universidade do Estado do Rio Grande do Norte, UERN, Departamento de Física Mossoró, RN, CEP 59610-210, Brazil
Received: 21 February 2013
Accepted: 26 April 2013
The San Andreas fault (SAF) in the USA is one of the most investigated self-organizing systems in Nature. In this paper, we studied some geophysical properties of the SAF system in order to analyze the behavior of earthquakes in the context of Tsallis's q-Triplet. To this end, we considered 134573 earthquake events in the magnitude interval 
, taken from the Southern Earthquake Data Center (SCEDC, 1932–2012). The values obtained (“q-Triplet”
) reveal that the 
-Gaussian behavior of the aforementioned data exhibit long-range temporal correlations. Moreover, 
exhibits quasi-monofractal behavior with a Hurst exponent of 0.87.
PACS: 91.30.Px – Earthquakes / 97.10.Yp – Star counts, distribution, and statistics / 05.90.+m – Other topics in statistical physics, thermodynamics, and nonlinear dynamical systems (restricted to new topics in section 05)
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