Nonlinear Network Dynamics on Earthquake Fault Systems
Statistical Mechanics
2009-11-07 v1 Disordered Systems and Neural Networks
Abstract
Earthquake faults occur in networks that have dynamical modes not displayed by single isolated faults. Using simulations of the network of strike-slip faults in southern California, we find that the physics depends critically on both the interactions among the faults, which are determined by the geometry of the fault network, as well as on the stress dissipation properties of the nonlinear frictional physics, similar to the dynamics of integrate-and-fire neural networks.
Cite
@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0101382,
title = {Nonlinear Network Dynamics on Earthquake Fault Systems},
author = {Paul B. Rundle and John B. Rundle and Kristy F. Tiampo and Jorge S. Sa Martins and Seth McGinnis and W. Klein},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0101382},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
12 pages, 4 figures