%0 Journal Article
%T A model for the distribution of aftershock waiting times
%A Robert Shcherbakov
%A Gleb Yakovlev
%A Donald L. Turcotte
%A John B. Rundle
%J Physics
%D 2005
%I arXiv
%R 10.1103/PhysRevLett.95.218501
%X In this work the distribution of inter-occurrence times between earthquakes in aftershock sequences is analyzed and a model based on a non-homogeneous Poisson (NHP) process is proposed to quantify the observed scaling. In this model the generalized Omori's law for the decay of aftershocks is used as a time-dependent rate in the NHP process. The analytically derived distribution of inter-occurrence times is applied to several major aftershock sequences in California to confirm the validity of the proposed hypothesis.
%U http://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0508050v1