Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America; February 2006; v. 96; no. 1;
p. 313-320; DOI: 10.1785/0120050053
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Figure 5. The real percentage of mainshocks µ as a function of the
estimation based on the interevent-time distribution
µinter = 1/β for catalogs consisting
of 100, 1000, and 10,000 earthquakes, respectively. The small deviation from the
identity can be described by the correction curve µ =
1/β + 
(solid line), with = 0.044
– 0.176 (1/β – 0.5)2.
