title: Characterization of intermittency in renewal processes: application to earthquakes.
abstract: We construct a one-dimensional piecewise linear intermittent map from the interevent time distribution for a given renewal process. Then, we characterize intermittency by the asymptotic behavior near the indifferent fixed point in the piecewise linear intermittent map. Thus, we provide a framework to understand a unified characterization of intermittency and also present the Lyapunov exponent for renewal processes. This method is applied to the occurrence of earthquakes using the Japan Meteorological Agency and the National Earthquake Information Center catalog. By analyzing the return map of interevent times, we find that interevent times are not independent and identically distributed random variables but that the conditional probability distribution functions in the tail obey the Weibull distribution.
authors.affiliation: Department of Applied Physics, Advanced School of Science and Engineering, Waseda University, Okubo 3-4-1, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 169-8555, Japan.
authors.forename: Takuma
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Akimoto
authors.forename: Tomohiro
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Hasumi
authors.forename: Yoji
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Aizawa
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D003198:Computer Simulation; D055866:Earthquakes; D015233:Models, Statistical; D009991:Oscillometry / Q000379:methods*