Pith Number

pith:74YWYVCA

pith:1998:74YWYVCAPUZ6MQIHS3UEEKNY6Q

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An Observational Test of the Critical Earthquake Concept

A. Sornette, C.G. Sammis, D.D. Bowman, D. Sornette, G. Ouillon

arxiv:cond-mat/9803204 v1 · 1998-03-16 · cond-mat.stat-mech

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{74YWYVCAPUZ6MQIHS3UEEKNY6Q}

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Record completeness

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

✓ Portable graph bundle live · download bundle · merged state

The bundle contains the canonical record plus signed events. A mirror can host it anywhere and recompute the same current state with the deterministic merge algorithm.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T01:39:30.927354Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ff316c54407d33e6410796e84229b8f438eb304823751fde5c2e5142e7af233a

Aliases

arxiv: cond-mat/9803204 · arxiv_version: cond-mat/9803204v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.cond-mat/9803204 · pith_short_12: 74YWYVCAPUZ6 · pith_short_16: 74YWYVCAPUZ6MQIH · pith_short_8: 74YWYVCA

Agent API

Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/74YWYVCAPUZ6MQIHS3UEEKNY6Q \
  | jq -c '.canonical_record' \
  | python3 -c "import sys,json,hashlib; b=json.dumps(json.loads(sys.stdin.read()), sort_keys=True, separators=(',',':'), ensure_ascii=False).encode(); print(hashlib.sha256(b).hexdigest())"
# expect: ff316c54407d33e6410796e84229b8f438eb304823751fde5c2e5142e7af233a

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "e51c9f9ed008efe8db6c038330bf3e079d6eaf1b965ca250763aa19026a364dd",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "cond-mat.stat-mech",
    "submitted_at": "1998-03-16T23:45:33Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "9477c584e000c6bf8ae381030b4d2d6f2630e6b78d963eedce94c720df6e5560"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "cond-mat/9803204",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}