looks like a Poisson process
Posted by John Vidale on August 21, 2007 at 19:08:38:

There are clearly few long intervals because earthquakes of this size usually happen so frequently that it is rare to go two weeks without one.

Why does this set of numbers look anomalous?

Follow Ups:
     ● Re: looks like a Poisson process - Roger Hunter  19:32:02 - 8/21/2007  (72492)  (2)
        ● there should not be a peak - John Vidale  22:27:25 - 8/21/2007  (72494)  (0)
        ● Re: looks like a Poisson process - Roger Hunter  21:11:34 - 8/21/2007  (72493)  (2)
           ● wait a minute - heartland chris  07:01:23 - 8/22/2007  (72497)  (1)
              ● Re: wait a minute - Roger Hunter  09:09:01 - 8/22/2007  (72498)  (1)
                 ● I may understand it (sort of) now - heartland chris  15:20:59 - 8/22/2007  (72505)  (1)
                    ● exactly (nm) - John Vidale  18:43:01 - 8/22/2007  (72508)  (1)
                       ● Re: exactly (nm) - Roger Hunter  20:04:20 - 8/22/2007  (72509)  (1)
                          ● check the most anomalous pairs - John Vidale  13:28:03 - 8/23/2007  (72510)  (0)
           ● Re: looks like a Poisson process - heartland chris  06:56:13 - 8/22/2007  (72496)  (0)