Corral, Álvaro - In: Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications 340 (2004) 4, pp. 590-597
The unified scaling law for earthquakes, proposed by Bak, Christensen, Danon and Scanlon, is shown to hold worldwide, as well as for areas as diverse as Japan, New Zealand, Spain or New Madrid. The scaling functions that account for the rescaled recurrence-time probability densities show a...