Complex systems;
power law;
statistical physics;
earthquakes;
narco-war;
D O I:
10.1142/S0129183122501224
中图分类号:
TP39 [计算机的应用];
学科分类号:
081203 ;
0835 ;
摘要:
From the official report of narco-war-related casualties in Mexico from December 2006 to September 2011, we show that the inter-event time distribution (calculated for a range of minimum sizes) approximately obeys simple scaling laws similar to violent conflicts in Iraq (2003-2005), Afghanistan (2008-2010) and Northern Ireland (1969-2001). Furthermore, normalizing deaths by population municipalities (the smallest Mexican political entities) yields even better fitting results.