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Earthquakes are caused the movement of adjacent tectonic plates along geological faults (fault dynamics) in the earth’s lithosphere. The overall frequency distribution of the magnitude M of earthquakes, including foreshocks, mainshocks and aftershocks, is said to follow the empirical Gutenberg–Richter law [1, 2]:
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P., B. (2006). Geometric Models of Earthquakes. In: Bhattacharyya, P., Chakrabarti, B.K. (eds) Modelling Critical and Catastrophic Phenomena in Geoscience. Lecture Notes in Physics, vol 705. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg . https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-35375-5_6
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