%0 Journal Article
%T The time distribution of aftershock magnitudes, fault geometry and aftershock prediction
%A Pathikrit Bhattacharya
%A Kamal
%A Bikas K. Chakrabarti
%J Physics
%D 2009
%I arXiv
%X We have analyzed, for the first time, the time cumulant of magnitudes of an aftershock sequence since the mainshock. This comes out to be a remarkable straight line whose slope is characteristic of the fault zone. This will provide an useful tool in understanding the temporal distribution of aftershocks after a specific mainshock.
%U http://arxiv.org/abs/0910.3738v2