Non-Extensive Statistical Analysis of Seismicity on the West Coastline of Mexico

Autor: Elsa Leticia Flores-Márquez, Alejandro Ramírez-Rojas, Leonardo Di G. Sigalotti
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2024
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Zdroj: Fractal and Fractional, Vol 8, Iss 6, p 306 (2024)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2504-3110
DOI: 10.3390/fractalfract8060306
Popis: Mexico is a well-known seismically active country, which is primarily affected by several tectonic plate interactions along the southern Pacific coastline and by active structures in the Gulf of California. In this paper, we investigate this seismicity using the classical Gutenberg–Richter (GR) law and a non-extensive statistical approach based on Tsallis entropy. The analysis is performed using data from the corrected Mexican seismic catalog provided by the National Seismic Service, spanning the period from January 2000 to October 2023, and unlike previous work, it includes six different regions along the entire west coastline of Mexico. The Gutenberg–Richter law fitting to the earthquake sub-catalogs for all six regions studied indicates magnitudes of completeness between 3.30 and 3.76, implying that the majority of seismic movements occur for magnitudes less than 4. The cumulative distribution of earthquakes as derived from the Tsallis entropy was fitted to the corrected catalog data to estimate the q-entropic index for all six regions, which for values greater than one is a measure of the non-extensivity (i.e., non-equilibrium) of the system. All regions display values of the entropic index in the range 1.52≲q≲1.61, slightly lower than previously estimated ( 1.54≲q≲1.70) using catalog data from 1988 to 2010. The reason for this difference is related to the use of modern recording devices, which are sensitive to the detection of a larger number of low-magnitude events compared to older instrumentation.
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