Fig. 3: Magnitude statistics for all data (black) and individual clusters (see legend). | Nature Communications

Fig. 3: Magnitude statistics for all data (black) and individual clusters (see legend).

From: Revealing the spatiotemporal complexity of the magnitude distribution and b-value during an earthquake sequence

Fig. 3

a Representing the data in terms of their magnitude–frequency distribution (MFD). Note that a tiny value is added to each MFD (between − 0.1 and 0.1) to avoid visual overlaps at large magnitudes. b The Lilliefors p-value (assuming an exponential distribution as null hypothesis) as a function of lower magnitude cutoff, or magnitude of completeness, Mc (see Methods). c The estimated b-value (the slope of the fitted Gutenberg–Richter relation, see Methods) as a function of Mc with the shading representing 1σ. The \({M}_{{{{{{{{\rm{c}}}}}}}}}^{{{{{{{{\rm{Lilliefors}}}}}}}}}\) estimates are indicated for each cluster in a and c with a circle marker. Supplementary Fig. 3 shows the same analysis using local magnitudes.

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