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Slip Complexity in a Crustal-Plane Model of an Earthquake Fault

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Author
Myers, Christopher R.
Shaw, Bruce E.
Langer, J. S.
Abstract

We study numerically the behavior of a two-dimensional elastic plate (acrustal plane) that terminates along one of its edges at a homogeneous fault boundary. Slip-weakening friction at the boundary, inertial dynamics in the bulk, and uniform slow loading via elastic coupling to a substrate combine to produce a complex, deterministically chaotic sequence of slipping events. We observe a power-law distribution of small to moderately large events and an excess of very large events. For the smaller events, the moments scale with the rupture length in a manner that is consistent with seismological observations. For the largest events, rupture occurs in the form of narrow propagating pulses.

Date Issued
1994-10
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Cornell University
Keywords
theory center
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