A sandpile experiment and its implications for self-organized criticality and characteristic earthquake

Earth, Planets and Space

Volumn 55, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 283-289

  Yoshioka, Naota ^a  

^a YOKOHAMA CITY UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Characteristic earthquake; Sandpile; Self organized criticality

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKE; SELF ORGANIZATION;

EID: 20644434718     PISSN: 13438832     EISSN: 18805981     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/BF03351762     Document Type: Article

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