eprintid: 2096 rev_number: 8 eprint_status: archive userid: 6 dir: disk0/00/00/20/96 datestamp: 2018-06-07 10:05:51 lastmod: 2018-06-07 10:05:51 status_changed: 2018-06-07 10:05:51 type: article metadata_visibility: show creators_name: Tahir, Mohammad creators_name: Grasso, Jean-Robert creators_name: Amorese, Daniel creators_id: creators_id: creators_id: daniel.amorese@unicaen.fr corp_creators: ISTerre, UJF-Grenoble, CNRS, Grenoble, France corp_creators: ISTerre, UJF-Grenoble, CNRS, Grenoble, France corp_creators: Université de Caen Basse-Normandie, CNRS, Caen, France title: The largest aftershock: How strong, how far away, how delayed? subjects: MP2 divisions: EPOS-IP full_text_status: none abstract: Proposed in the 1950's, Båth's law states that the largest aftershock has a magnitude that is typically 1.2 less than that of the mainshock. Thirty years of the global earthquake catalog allow us to extend Båth's law in time, space and focal mechanism. On average, reverse faults have a smaller magnitude and distance from the mainshock to largest aftershock than strike‐slip faults. The distribution of the time intervals between mainshocks and their largest aftershocks obeys power law, but with a somewhat faster rate of decay than for aftershocks, in general. This implies that the largest aftershocks are more likely to occur earlier rather than later in a given sequence of aftershocks. date: 2012-02 date_type: published publication: Geophysical Research Letters volume: 39 number: 4 publisher: American Geophysical Union pagerange: n/a-n/a id_number: doi:10.1029/2011GL050604 issn: 0094-8276 official_url: http://doi.org/10.1029/2011GL050604 access_IS-EPOS: limited software_references: Earthquake_interactions-georesource_scale software_references: Earthquake_swarm owner: Publisher citation: Tahir, Mohammad and Grasso, Jean-Robert and Amorese, Daniel (2012) The largest aftershock: How strong, how far away, how delayed? Geophysical Research Letters, 39 (4). n/a-n/a. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1029/2011GL050604