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The understanding of long-distance relations between seismic activities has for long been of interest to seismologists and geologists. In this paper we have used data from the world-wide earthquake catalog for the period between 1972 and 2011, to generate a network of sites around the world for earthquakes with magnitude m ≥ 4.5 on the Richter scale. After the network construction, we have analyzed the results under two viewpoints. Firstly, in contrast to previous works, which have considered just small areas, we showed that the best fitting for networks of seismic events is not a pure power law, but a power law with an exponential cutoff. We also have found that the global network presents small-world properties. The implications of our results are discussed.
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Ferreira, D.S.R., Papa, A.R.R., Menezes, R. (2014). The Small World of Seismic Events. In: Contucci, P., Menezes, R., Omicini, A., Poncela-Casasnovas, J. (eds) Complex Networks V. Studies in Computational Intelligence, vol 549. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-05401-8_10
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