Nonextensivity in Geological Faults?

Details Nonextensivity in Geological Faults? Nonextensivity in Geological Faults?

2006-04-10

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0604257v1

Physica A 377, 285-290 (2007)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Statistical Mechanics

9 pages, 1 figure, standard LaTeX file

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Geological fault systems, as the San Andreas fault (SAF) in USA, constitute typical examples of self-organizing systems in nature. In this paper, we have considered some geophysical properties of the SAF system to test the viability of the nonextensive models for earthquakes developed in [Phys. Rev. E {\bf 73}, 026102, 2006]. To this end, we have used 6188 earthquakes events ranging in the magnitude interval $2 < m < 8$ that were taken from the Network Earthquake International Center catalogs (NEIC, 2004-2006) and the Bulletin of the International Seismological Centre (ISC, 1964-2003). For values of the Tsallis nonextensive parameter $q \simeq 1.68$, it is shown that the energy distribution function deduced in above reference provides an excellent fit to the NEIC and ISC SAF data.

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