Articles | Volume 25, issue 1
https://doi.org/10.5194/npg-25-241-2018
https://doi.org/10.5194/npg-25-241-2018
Research article
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29 Mar 2018
Research article |  | 29 Mar 2018

Utsu aftershock productivity law explained from geometric operations on the permanent static stress field of mainshocks

Arnaud Mignan

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The Utsu productivity law, one of the main relationships in seismicity statistics, gives the average number of aftershocks produced by a mainshock of a given magnitude. I demonstrate that the law can be formulated in the solid seismicity theory, where it is parameterized in terms of aftershock density within a geometrical solid, constrained by the mainshock size. This suggests that aftershocks can be studied by applying simple rules of analytic geometry on a static stress field.