A Minimalist Model of Characteristic Earthquakes
Materials Science
2020-01-29 v1
Abstract
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.
Keywords
Cite
@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0112317,
title = {A Minimalist Model of Characteristic Earthquakes},
author = {Miguel Vazquez-Prada and Alvaro Gonzalez and Javier B. Gomez and Amalio F. Pacheco},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0112317},
year = {2020}
}
Comments
9 pages, 4 figures