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Aftershocks and Omori's law in a modified Carlson-Langer model with nonlinear visco-elasticity

Geophysics 2015-06-11 v1 Soft Condensed Matter Statistical Mechanics Pattern Formation and Solitons

Abstract

A modified Carlson-Langer model for earthquakes is proposed, which includes nonlinear visco-elasticity. Several aftershocks are generated after the main shock owing to the damping of the additional visco-elastic force. Both the Gutenberg-Richter law and Omori's law are reproduced in a numerical simulation of the modified Carlson-Langer model on a critical percolation cluster of a square lattice.

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@article{arxiv.1505.02225,
  title  = {Aftershocks and Omori's law in a modified Carlson-Langer model with nonlinear visco-elasticity},
  author = {Hidetsugu Sakaguchi and Kazuki Okamura},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1505.02225},
  year   = {2015}
}

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8 pages, 7 figures