A Minimalist Model of Characteristic Earthquakes

Details A Minimalist Model of Characteristic Earthquakes A Minimalist Model of Characteristic Earthquakes

2001-12-17

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0112317v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Materials Science

9 pages, 4 figures

Scientific paper

In a spirit akin to the sandpile model of self-organized criticality, we present a simple statistical model of the cellular-automaton type which produces an avalanche spectrum similar to the characteristic-earthquake behavior of some seismic faults. This model, that has no parameter, is amenable to an algebraic description as a Markov Chain. This possibility illuminates some important results, obtained by Monte Carlo simulations, such as the earthquake size-frequency relation and the recurrence time of the characteristic earthquake.

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