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If the model of self-organized criticality (SOC) yields power law distributions [1–5], does it follow that the well-known power-law distribution of earthquake energies [6–8] imply that the earthquake process is SOC? I show below that the earth is not SOC and that there are alternatives to understand the power law.
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Knopoff, L. (1997). Scale Invariance of Earthquakes. In: Dubrulle, B., Graner, F., Sornette, D. (eds) Scale Invariance and Beyond. Centre de Physique des Houches, vol 7. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-09799-1_12
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