Rate- and State-Dependent Friction Law and Statistical Properties of Earthquakes

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2006-04-29

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0605014v2

Europhys. Letters 77, 69001 (2007)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Other Condensed Matter

Minor revisions are made in the text and in the figures. Accepted for publication in Europhys. Letters

Scientific paper

10.1209/0295-5075/77/69001

In order to clarify how the statistical properties of earthquakes depend on the constitutive law characterizing the stick-slip dynamics, we make an extensive numerical simulation of the one-dimensional spring-block model with the rate- and state-dependent friction law. Both the magnitude distribution and the recurrence-time distribution are studied with varying the constitutive parameters characterizing the model. While a continuous spectrum of seismic events from smaller to larger magnitudes is obtained, earthquakes described by this model turn out to possess pronounced ``characteristic'' features.

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