Self-organisation and dissipation in real and synthetic earthquake populations
Energy released from the Earth’s crust in the form of earthquakes commonly follows a powerlaw gamma type probability distribution. This spontaneous organisation is in apparent contradiction to the second law of thermodynamics that states that a system should naturally evolve to a state of maximum di...
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University of Edinburgh
2004
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| Online Access: | https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.561851 |