Self-organization of spatio-temporal earthquake clusters

Cellular automaton versions of the Burridge-Knopoff model have been shown to reproduce the power law distribution of event sizes; that is, the Gutenberg-Richter law. However, they have failed to reproduce the occurrence of foreshock and aftershock sequences correlated with large earthquakes. We show...

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Main Authors: S. Hainzl, G. Zöller, J. Kurths
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Copernicus Publications 2000-01-01
Series:Nonlinear Processes in Geophysics
Online Access:http://www.nonlin-processes-geophys.net/7/21/2000/npg-7-21-2000.pdf