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In this paper, the seismicity of the Taiwan seismic region was studied through the multifractal characteristics of the spatial-temporal distribution of earthquakes from 1st January 1995 to 1st January 2019. We quantified the multifractal characteristics of Taiwan at different scales and defined them as \u0394D values. Furthermore, we studied the relationship between the \u0394D and b values, which signifies the average size distribution of those earthquakes. The results are as follows. (1) The temporal multifractal curve changes substantially before and after the strong earthquakes. (2) The maximum \u0394D value of the seismic region in Taiwan occurs at depths of 0~9 km, indicating that geological structures and focal mechanisms is the most complex at these depths compared with other depths. (3) \u0394D values for different regions range from 0.2~1.5, and b values range from 0.65~1.3, with a significant positive correlation between them (\u0394D = 1.5 \u00d7 b \u2212 0.68). For this purpose, a statistical relationship is developed between b and \u0394D values, and regional and temporal changes of these parameters are analyzed in order to reveal the potential of future earthquakes in the study region.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/ijgi9060384","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2020,6,10]],"date-time":"2020-06-10T07:13:16Z","timestamp":1591773196000},"page":"384","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":7,"title":["Multifractal Characteristics of Seismogenic Systems and b Values in the Taiwan Seismic Region"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"9","author":[{"given":"Chun","family":"Hui","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Key Laboratory of Environmental Change and Natural Disaster, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China"},{"name":"State Key Laboratory of Earth Surface Processes and Resource Ecology, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China"},{"name":"Faculty of Geographical Science, Center for Geodata and Analysis, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Changxiu","family":"Cheng","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Key Laboratory of Environmental Change and Natural Disaster, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China"},{"name":"State Key Laboratory of Earth Surface Processes and Resource Ecology, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China"},{"name":"Faculty of Geographical Science, Center for Geodata and Analysis, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China"},{"name":"National Tibetan Plateau Data Center, Beijing 100101, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Lixin","family":"Ning","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Key Laboratory of Environmental Change and Natural Disaster, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China"},{"name":"State Key Laboratory of Earth Surface Processes and Resource Ecology, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China"},{"name":"Faculty of Geographical Science, Center for Geodata and Analysis, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Jing","family":"Yang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Data Science, Taiyuan University of Technology, Taiyuan 030024, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2020,6,10]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"7507","DOI":"10.1029\/JB094iB06p07507","article-title":"A correlation between the b-value and the fractal dimension of earthquakes","volume":"94","author":"Hirata","year":"1989","journal-title":"J. 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