A systematic test on seismic quiescence occurring before largeearthquakes is conducted. For a fixed geographical location, the degree ofclustering in space and time is analysed and the results are testedagainst randomized earthquake catalogs.A gridding technique allows to investigate the...

The aim of this paper is to understand the origin of the deviations from the Gutenberg–Richter law observed for individual earthquake faults. The Gutenberg–Richter law can be reproduced by slider-block fault models showing in its quasi-static limit self-organized criticality. However, in...