Self-Organized Criticality and earthquakes
Geophysics
2009-11-13 v1 Statistical Mechanics
Computational Physics
Abstract
We discuss recent results on a new analysis regarding models showing Self-Organized Criticality (SOC), and in particular on the OFC one. We show that Probability Density Functions (PDFs) for the avalanche size differences at different times have fat tails with a q-Gaussian shape. This behavior does not depend on the time interval adopted and it is also found when considering energy differences between real earthquakes.
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@article{arxiv.0711.1750,
title = {Self-Organized Criticality and earthquakes},
author = {F. Caruso and A. Pluchino and V. Latora and A. Rapisarda and S. Vinciguerra},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0711.1750},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
4 pages, Paper presented at the international conference CTNEXT07, satellite of STATPHYS23, 1-5 july 2007, Catania, Italy http://www.ct.infn.it/ctnext07/