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Its the slope of the line that plots the relationship between the number of earthquakes of a specific size against their size. in general its 1. <br/><br/>this is an empirical relationship meaning there has been no real convincing reasoning of why this happens it just does. at the small end and the large end it breaks down but holds pretty much through small and large time scales and small and large areas. <br/><br/>Pretty cool!?<br/>http://www.jclahr.com/science/earth_science/mag_dist/index.html<br/>general<br/>http://www.agu.org/pubs/crossref/2005/2005GL022679.shtml<br/>an abstract with an example of how this is being used in seismology <br/><br/>I have one of the main papers talking about this in pdf form let me know if you want it! <div style="clear: both;"></div> </div> <div class="post-footer"> <div class="post-footer-line post-footer-line-1"> <span class="post-author vcard"> Posted by <span class="fn" itemprop="author" itemscope="itemscope" itemtype="http://schema.org/Person"> <span itemprop="name">Anna</span> </span> </span> <span class="post-timestamp"> at <meta content="https://web.archive.org/web/20231123014236/http://thrustacline.blogspot.com/2008/10/b-values.html" itemprop="url"/> <a class="timestamp-link" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20231123014236/https://thrustacline.blogspot.com/2008/10/b-values.html" rel="bookmark" title="permanent link"><abbr class="published" itemprop="datePublished" title="2008-10-28T22:38:00-07:00">10:38 PM</abbr></a> </span> <span class="post-comment-link"> </span> <span class="post-icons"> <span class="item-control blog-admin pid-1597624535"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20231123014236/https://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=8774555105590352481&postID=936330144515930917&from=pencil" title="Edit Post"> <img alt="" class="icon-action" height="18" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20231123014236im_/https://resources.blogblog.com/img/icon18_edit_allbkg.gif" width="18"/> </a> </span> </span> <div class="post-share-buttons goog-inline-block"> <a class="goog-inline-block share-button sb-email" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20231123014236/https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=8774555105590352481&postID=936330144515930917&target=email" target="_blank" title="Email This"><span class="share-button-link-text">Email This</span></a><a class="goog-inline-block share-button sb-blog" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20231123014236/https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=8774555105590352481&postID=936330144515930917&target=blog" onclick="window.open(this.href, "_blank", "height=270,width=475"); 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Alaska probably offers a lot of get things to study! ;) </p> </dd> <dd class="comment-footer"> <span class="comment-timestamp"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20231123014236/https://thrustacline.blogspot.com/2008/10/b-values.html?showComment=1225297860000#c3373202344690839356" title="comment permalink"> October 29, 2008 at 9:31 AM </a> <span class="item-control blog-admin pid-519265951"> <a class="comment-delete" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20231123014236/https://www.blogger.com/delete-comment.g?blogID=8774555105590352481&postID=3373202344690839356" title="Delete Comment"> <img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20231123014236im_/https://resources.blogblog.com/img/icon_delete13.gif"/> </a> </span> </span> </dd> <dt class="comment-author blog-author" id="c1145659183365305315"> <a name="c1145659183365305315"></a> <div class="avatar-image-container vcard"><span dir="ltr"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20231123014236/https://www.blogger.com/profile/04101983288030345291" target="" rel="nofollow" onclick="" class="avatar-hovercard" id="av-1145659183365305315-04101983288030345291"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20231123014236im_/https://resources.blogblog.com/img/blank.gif" width="35" height="35" class="delayLoad" style="display: none;" longdesc="//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSOAsGB25dLLnKLy5jclawXy0coSog_dcidHPkSMAI4pp5j2k1iZ-m0MFM6_tB5BzWPvxGym_sLlg_si8mGeYVkaPGt8uPRBulLMz0QQa4kpRx8_-k2BFbyd3RrLT-Sw/s45-c/P8230110.JPG" alt="" title="Anna"> <noscript><img src="//web.archive.org/web/20231123014236im_/https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSOAsGB25dLLnKLy5jclawXy0coSog_dcidHPkSMAI4pp5j2k1iZ-m0MFM6_tB5BzWPvxGym_sLlg_si8mGeYVkaPGt8uPRBulLMz0QQa4kpRx8_-k2BFbyd3RrLT-Sw/s45-c/P8230110.JPG" width="35" height="35" class="photo" alt=""></noscript></a></span></div> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20231123014236/https://www.blogger.com/profile/04101983288030345291" rel="nofollow">Anna</a> said... </dt> <dd class="comment-body" id="Blog1_cmt-1145659183365305315"> <p> hehehe so far its pretty awesome! 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