Scaling in a Nonconservative Earthquake Model of Self-Organised Criticality

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2001-04-02

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0104032v2

Physics

Condensed Matter

Statistical Mechanics

6 pages, 6 figures, to be published in Phys. Rev. E; references sorted correctly

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We numerically investigate the Olami-Feder-Christensen model for earthquakes in order to characterise its scaling behaviour. We show that ordinary finite size scaling in the model is violated due to global, system wide events. Nevertheless we find that subsystems of linear dimension small compared to the overall system size obey finite (subsystem) size scaling, with universal critical coefficients, for the earthquake events localised within the subsystem. We provide evidence, moreover, that large earthquakes responsible for breaking finite size scaling are initiated predominantly near the boundary.

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