SELF-SIMILARITY OF ENERGY STRUCTURE OF SEISMICITY IN THE BAIKAL REGION

Abstract

In this paper, the energy structure of seismicity (ESS) in the Baikal region is studied within the framework of the self-similarity theory when the distribution of shocks is extrapolated by inverse cascade over the scale of K P energy classes similar to Kantor dust. It was shown that the Guttenberg–Richter law reflects self-similarity of the ESS, whose Hausdorff dimension D depends on the scale used to estimate the earthquake magnitude. If the slope of the recurrence plot b decreases, the Hausdorff dimension of the ESS asymptotically approaches D → 1. The stages of geophysical medium self-organization in the Baikal region lead to simplification of the ESS, which is caused by the regularity of the seismic process energy under the influence of strong shocks.