Critical behavior in the time evolution of an earthquake model

Chaos, solitons and fractals

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 479-483

  Utsumi, T ^a   Aizawa, Y ^a  

^a WASEDA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; EARTHQUAKES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUMERICAL METHODS; PROBLEM SOLVING; SEISMOLOGY; STATISTICAL METHODS;

CRUST STRENGTH; FAULT STRENGTH HEALING; FRACTAL DISTRIBUTION; FREQUENCY DISTRIBUTION; GUTENBERG-RICHTER LAW; NUCLEATION LENGTH; TIME EVOLUTION;

FRACTALS;

EID: 0034159345     PISSN: 09600779     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0960-0779(99)00175-7     Document Type: Article

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