Maximum entropy production and earthquake dynamics

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 35, Issue 19, 2008, Pages

  Main, Ian G ^a   Naylor, Mark ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRITICAL CURRENT DENSITY (SUPERCONDUCTIVITY); EARTHQUAKES; ENTROPY; LAWS AND LEGISLATION; SEISMOLOGY; STATE FEEDBACK; STRAIN RATE; STRESSES;

AND MODELS; B VALUES; BOUNDARY STRESSES; CRITICAL STATES; DISSIPATIVE SYSTEMS; DO-MAINS; EARTHQUAKE DYNAMICS; ENTROPY PRODUCTIONS; FINITE DEGREES; FINITE MEMORIES; MAGNITUDE DATUMS; MAXIMUM ENTROPY PRODUCTION HYPOTHESIS; MAXIMUM ENTROPY PRODUCTIONS; PHYSICAL MECHANISMS; STEADY STATES; STRESS DROPS; STRESS FIELDS;

FEEDBACK;

EARTHQUAKE CATALOGUE; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; FREQUENCY-MAGNITUDE DISTRIBUTION; GEODYNAMICS; LOW VELOCITY ZONE; MAXIMUM ENTROPY ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; POWER LAW DISTRIBUTION; SEISMICITY; STEADY-STATE EQUILIBRIUM; STRAIN RATE; STRESS FIELD;

EID: 57749177065     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008GL035590     Document Type: Article

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