%0 Journal Article
%T Small-World Structure of Earthquake Network
%J Physica A: statistical mechanics and its applications
%D 2004
%A Abe, S.
%A Suzuki, N.
%V 337
%N 1-2
%P 357-362
%X Discoveries of the scale-free and small-world features are reported on the network constructed from the seismic data. It is shown that the connectivity distribution decays as a power law, and the value of the degrees of separation, i.e., the characteristic path length, between two earthquakes (as the vertices) chosen at random takes a small value between 2 and 3. The clustering coefficient is also calculated and is found to be about 10 times larger than that in the case of the completely random network. These features highlight a novel aspect of seismicity as a complex phenomenon.<p />
%G 
%I Elsevier Publishing
%@ 0378-4371
%U http://dx.doi.org/