Earthquake model
One of the classical examples of power-law distributions may be found in geology. It is the Gutenberg-Richeter law, which relates the number of earthquakes to their magnitude. Mathematically this relation is expressed as \( \lg N = a - b M \). Here \( N \) is a number of earthquakes of certain magnitude \( M \) or stronger, \( b \) is empirically determined and depends on seismic activity of the region, while \( a = \lg N_0 \).
In this text we will briefly present self-organized criticality model, which reproduces the power-law distribution of earthquakes - Olami-Feder-Christensen model.