Nucleation process in the Burridge-Knopoff model of earthquakes
Geophysics
2015-06-18 v2 Other Condensed Matter
Chaotic Dynamics
Abstract
Nucleation process of the one-dimensional Burridge-Knopoff model of earthquakes obeying the rate- and state-dependent friction law is studied both analytically and numerically. The properties of the nucleation dynamics, the nucleation lengths and the duration times are examined together with their continuum limits.
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@article{arxiv.1401.3247,
title = {Nucleation process in the Burridge-Knopoff model of earthquakes},
author = {Yushi Ueda and Shouji Morimoto and Shingo Kakui and Takumi Yamamoto and Hikaru Kawamura},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1401.3247},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
Title changed, one figure (previous Fig.2) omitted, several references (new Refs.5-8,21,24-28) added, and two eqs. (new eqs.1,5) added. Text expanded considerably, especially the part explaining the relation of the model to the elastic continuum model. To appear in Europhys. Letters