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Area of Science:

Geophysics
Complex Systems
Statistical Mechanics

Background:

Earthquake occurrence exhibits power-law distributions in size and time.
Understanding the underlying mechanisms of these distributions is crucial for seismic hazard assessment.
Previous models often require complex assumptions or fine-tuning.

Purpose of the Study:

To propose a novel branching process model for earthquake occurrence.
To demonstrate that a dynamical scaling hypothesis can explain observed power laws.
To develop a numerical method for generating synthetic earthquake catalogs.

Main Methods:

A branching process model incorporating a dynamical scaling hypothesis relating time and mass.
Numerical simulations to generate synthetic earthquake catalogs.
Analysis of statistical properties of the generated catalogs, including event size and interevent times.

Main Results:

The proposed scaling hypothesis naturally generates power-law distributions for earthquake size and time.
The numerical protocol successfully creates synthetic catalogs with a large number of events.
The generated data exhibit hierarchical organization in time and magnitude, consistent with experimental observations.

Conclusions:

Dynamical scaling provides a fundamental mechanism for earthquake statistics.
The branching process model offers a parsimonious explanation for observed power laws.
The numerical protocol is a valuable tool for studying earthquake dynamics and testing hypotheses.