Spatiotemporal characteristics and geophysical drivers of the fractal dimension and b-value in North China seismicity.

PLoS One · 2026 · PMC13225400 · PMID 42224167

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In contrast, for the Tangshan sequence, both the fractal dimension and the b -value showed a decreasing trend before the mainshock, reaching their minima around the time of the mainshock.

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