Abstract
Earthquake time series are constructed by making counts per unit time of earthquakes with magnitudes greater than a chosen threshold. The time series from widely separated regions show strong correlations with one another, and it is suggested that tectonic plates are subjected to a fluctuating stress field that results in these changes in seismic activity.
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Chinnery, M., Landers, T. Evidence for earthquake triggering stress. Nature 258, 490–493 (1975). https://doi.org/10.1038/258490a0
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