Monofractal and multifractal characterization of geoelectrical signals measured in Southern Italy (Q1433747)

The authors show that the time dynamics of the geoelectrical time series measured in a seismic active area of Southern Italy are not realizations of a purely random stochastic process. The Lomb power spectra have the power-law form typical of colored-noise with the spectral exponent measuring the degree of correlations in the signals, this indicating the presence of memory effects in the geophysical system generating geoelectrical signals. The multifractal formalism applied to the analyzed time series, aimed at determining a set of multifractal parameters, has revealed its power of discrimination between signals measured in seismic sites from signal recorded in a eismic sites.