Simulation of the Burridge-Knopoff model of earthquakes with variable range stress transfer

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 95, Issue 24, 2005, Pages

  Xia, Junchao ^a   Gould, Harvey ^a   Klein, W ^b   Rundle, J B ^c  

^a CLARK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b USA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BURRIDGE-KNOPOFF MODEL; CELLULAR AUTOMATON MODELS; GUTENBERG-RICHTER SCALING;

FORECASTING; FRICTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SPRINGS (COMPONENTS); STRESS ANALYSIS;

EARTHQUAKES;

ALGORITHM; DISASTER; FRICTION; MECHANICAL STRESS; MOTION; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

ALGORITHMS; DISASTERS; FRICTION; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MOTION; STRESS, MECHANICAL;

EID: 28844470919     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.95.248501     Document Type: Article

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