Earthquake size-frequency relations from an analytical stochastic rupture model

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 101, Issue B10, 1996, Pages 22435-22448

  Heimpel, Moritz ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKE; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; FRACTURE MECHANICS; RUPTURE MODEL; RUPTURE PROCESS; SIZE/FREQUENCY RELATIONS; STOCHASTIC MODEL;

EID: 0030429799     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

References (19)

1. Aki, K., Magnitude-frequency relation for small earthquakes: A clue to the origin of fmax of large earthquakes, J. Geophys. Res., 92, 1349-1355, 1987.
2. Andrews, D.J., A stochastic fault model, 1, Static case, J. Geophys. Res., 85, 3867-3877, 1980.
3. Bak, P., and C. Tang, Earthquakes as a self-organized critical phenomenon, J. Geophys. Res., 94, 15635-15637, 1989.
4. Barriere, B., and D.L. Turcotte, Seismicity and self-organized criticality, Phys. Rev. E, 49, 1151-1160, 1994.
5. Ben-Zion, Y., and J.R. Rice, Earthquake failure sequences along a cellular fault zone in a three-dimensional elastic solid containing asperity and nonasperity regions, J. Geophys. Res., 98, 14109-14131, 1993.
6. Carlson, J.M., and J.S. Langer, Mechanical model of an earthquake fault, Phys. Rev., 40, 6470-6484, 1989.
7. Cowie, P. A., C. Vanneste and D. Sornette, Statistical physics model for the spatio temporal evolution of faults, J. Geophys. Res., 98, 21809-21821, 1993.
8. Ellsworth, W.L., and G.C. Beroza, Seismic evidence for an earthquake nucleation phase, Science, 268, 851-855, 1995.
9. Hanks, T.C., and H. Kanamori, A moment magnitude scale, J. Geophys. Res., 84, 2348-2350, 1979
10. Harlow, D.G., and S.L. Phoenix, Probability distributions for the strength of fibrous materials under local load sharing, 1, Two level failure and edge effects, Adv. Appl. Probab., 14, 68-94, 1982.
11. Heimpel, M., and P. Olson, A seismodynamical model of lithosphere deformation: development of continental and oceanic rift networks, J. Geophys. Res., 101, 16155-16176, 1996.
12. Kanamori, H., and D.L. Ahderson, Theoretical basis of some empirical relations in seismology, Bull. Seismol. Soc. Am., 65, 1073-1095, 1975.
13. Malin, P.E., and M.G. Alvarez, Stress diffusion along the San Andreas fault at Parkfield, CA, Science, 256, 1005-1007, 1992.
14. Malin, P.E., S.N. Blakeslee, M.G. Alvarez, and A.J. Martin, Microearthquake imaging of the Parkfield asperity, Science, 244, 557-559, 1989.
15. Mikumo, T., and T. Miyatake, Earthquake sequences on a frictional fault with non-uniform strengths and relaxation times, Geophys. J. R. Astron. Soc., 54, 497-522, 1979.
16. Okal, E.A., and B.A. Romanowicz, On the variation of b-values with earthquake size, Phys. Earth Planet. Inter., 87, 55-76, 1994.
17. Pacheco, J., C. Scholz and L. Sykes, Changes in frequency-magnitude relationship from small to large earthquakes, Nature, 355, 71-73, 1992.
18. Rice, J.R., Spatio-temporal complexity of slip on a fault, J. Geophys. Res., 98, 9885-9907, 1993.
19. Wesnousky, S.G., The Gutenberg-Richter or characteristic earthquake distribution: Which is it?, Bull. Seismol. Soc. Am., 84, 1940-1959, 1994.