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Variation of regional Gutenberg–Richter law parameter before and after large earthquakes in some earthquake prone zones around the world

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This paper presents variation of Gutenberg–Richter law parameter b for epicentral regions of large earthquakes in different earthquake prone areas in the world like Japan, California, Sichuan province (China), North-Eastern India, Maule (Chile), L’Aquila (Italy), Off-west-coast of New Zealand, Sumatra (2004 tsunami region) from both clustered and de-clustered catalogs. A decreasing trend of b before major earthquakes is observed in most cases and after a large event the b value shows an increasing trend. It is shown that the variation of b for foreshock and aftershock of a large event in a region also follows the same trend.

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The authors would like to thank United States Geological Survey (USGS) and International Seismological Center (ISC) for making the earthquake data freely available on their websites.

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  1. Department of Atmospheric Science, Calcutta University, 51/2 Hazra Road, Kolkata, 700019, West Bengal, India

    S. K. Midya & P. K. Gole

  2. Indian Centre for Space Physics, 43 Chalantika, Garia Station Road, Kolkata, 700084, West Bengal, India

    S. K. Midya

  3. Khasramkar K A H S School, South 24 Pgs., Khasramkar, Sagar, 743373, West Bengal, India

    P. K. Gole

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Midya, S.K., Gole, P.K. Variation of regional Gutenberg–Richter law parameter before and after large earthquakes in some earthquake prone zones around the world. Indian J Phys 88, 1227–1234 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12648-014-0588-1

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