Statistics of Earthquakes in Simple Models of Heterogeneous Faults

Preprint

3 March 1997

preprint
Published by arXiv in arXiv

https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.cond-mat/9703029

Abstract

Simple models for ruptures along a heterogeneous earthquake fault zone are studied, focussing on the interplay between the roles of disorder and dynamical effects. A class of models are found to operate naturally at a critical point whose properties yield power law scaling of earthquake statistics. Various dynamical effects can change the behavior to a distribution of small events combined with characteristic system size events. The studies employ various analytic methods as well as simulations.

Keywords

STATISTICS OF EARTHQUAKES
HETEROGENEOUS FAULTS
CHANGE THE BEHAVIOR
CRITICAL POINT
SIMPLE MODELS
FAULTS SIMPLE
FAULT ZONE

All Related Versions

Version 1, 1997-03-03, ArXiv
Published version: Physical Review Letters, 78 (25), 4885.

This publication has 0 references indexed in Scilit: