Nonlinear Sciences – Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems
Scientific paper
2003-07-10
Nonlinear Sciences
Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems
7 pages, 3 figures
Scientific paper
The recently introduced Minimalist Model [Vazquez- Prada et al., 2002] of characteristic earthquakes provides a simple representation of the seismicity originated in a sin- gle fault. Here, we first characterize the properties of this model for large systems. Then, assuming, as it has been observed, that the size of the faults in a big enough region is fractally distributed, with a fractal dimension D = 1.7, we describe the total seismicity produced in that region. The resulting catalogue accounts for the addition of all the characteristic events triggered in the faults and also includes the rest of non-characteristic earthquakes. The global accumulated size-frequency relation correctly describes a Gutenberg-Richter form, with a b exponent of around 0.7.
Gomez Javier B.
López-Ruiz Ricardo
Pacheco Amalio. F.
Vazquez-Prada Miguel
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