TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2004//
TI  - Small-World Structure of Earthquake Network
JO  - Physica A: statistical mechanics and its applications
A1  - Abe, S.
A1  - Suzuki, N.
SP  - 357
EP  - 362
VL  - 337
IS  - 1-2
N2  - 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 /> 
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SN  - 0378-4371
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/
ID  - ref1
ER  -