Taylor's power law in the Wenchuan earthquake sequence with fluctuation scaling

Shi, Peijian; Li, Mei; Li, Yang; Liu, Jie; Shi, Haixia; Xie, Tao; Yue, Chong

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-19-1119-2019

Articles | Volume 19, issue 6

https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-19-1119-2019

© Author(s) 2019. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-19-1119-2019

© Author(s) 2019. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 19, issue 6

Research article

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12 Jun 2019

Research article |

| 12 Jun 2019

Taylor's power law in the Wenchuan earthquake sequence with fluctuation scaling

Peijian Shi, Mei Li, Yang Li, Jie Liu, Haixia Shi, Tao Xie, and Chong Yue

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RC1: 'comments for nhess-2018-315', Anonymous Referee #1, 26 Dec 2018
- AC3: 'Reply to the reviewer', Mei Li, 13 Feb 2019
RC2: 'Comments on "A Taylor's power law in the Wenchuan earthquake sequence with fluctuation scaling"', Anonymous Referee #2, 18 Jan 2019
- AC2: 'Reply to the reviewer', Mei Li, 13 Feb 2019
AC1: 'Reply to the reviewer', Mei Li, 13 Feb 2019
- AC4: 'Reply to all reviewers', Mei Li, 14 Feb 2019
RC3: 'Comments on “A Taylor’s power law in the Wenchuan earthquake sequence with ﬂuctuation scaling” by Peijian Shi et al.', Anonymous Referee #3, 14 Feb 2019
- AC5: 'Reply to the reviewer', Mei Li, 18 Feb 2019

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AR: Author's response | RR: Referee report | ED: Editor decision

ED: Reconsider after major revisions (further review by editor and referees) (22 Feb 2019) by Oded Katz

AR by Mei Li on behalf of the Authors (25 Feb 2019) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Referee Nomination & Report Request started (15 Mar 2019) by Oded Katz

RR by Anonymous Referee #1 (20 Mar 2019)

RR by Anonymous Referee #2 (25 Mar 2019)

ED: Publish subject to minor revisions (review by editor) (10 Apr 2019) by Oded Katz

AR by Mei Li on behalf of the Authors (12 Apr 2019) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Publish as is (18 Apr 2019) by Oded Katz

AR by Mei Li on behalf of the Authors (19 Apr 2019) Manuscript

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A statistical method is tentatively utilized to study distribution properties of aftershocks of the Wenchuan sequence in the view of energy release. The results show that the events in the Wenchuan sequence are not independent but have mutual attraction, their spatio–temporal distribution tends to be nonrandom but definite and deterministic, and imply it is possible for energy release to be predicted, although we cannot accurately predict the occurrence time and locations of the imminent event.