Earthquake Potential study in the Eastern block of Iran

The fractal dimensions obtained by different methods generally reflect different aspects of the scale invariance, and need not be equal to or even positively correlated with one another. Parameters of fractal analysis are fractal dimension (correlation dimension Dc and capacity dimension D0) and seismic b value. We investigate the spatial variations of seismicity along these zones in an attempt to investigate fault complexity along strike, quantified by the Gutenberg-Richter b-value and the fractal (correlation) dimension of earthquake epicenters, by using the correlation integral method, from magnitude distribution (b value) by maximum likelihood method. The investigation covers instrumentally recorded earthquakes of magnitude M > 1.5 occurring between 1964 and 2012. The correlation dimension (D=1.36±0.01) and b (0.2