Hypocenter interval statistics between successive earthquakes in the two-dimensional Burridge-Knopoff model

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications

Volumn 388, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 477-482

  Hasumi, Tomohiro ^a  

^a WASEDA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Burridge Knopoff model; Earthquakes; Hypocenter statistics; q exponential distribution

Indexed keywords

CELL PROLIFERATION; EARTHQUAKES; SLIP FORMING; STATISTICAL MECHANICS; STICK-SLIP;

BURRIDGE-KNOPOFF MODEL; CUMULATIVE DISTRIBUTION; NONEXTENSIVE STATISTICAL MECHANICS; Q-EXPONENTIAL DISTRIBUTIONS; STATISTICAL PROPERTIES; STICK-SLIP BEHAVIOR; STIFFNESS PARAMETERS; TWO DIMENSIONAL (2 D);

STATISTICS;

EID: 57349155549     PISSN: 03784371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physa.2008.10.017     Document Type: Article

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