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

Myers, Christopher R.; Shaw, Bruce E.; Langer, J. S.

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

dc.contributor.author	Myers, Christopher R.	en_US
dc.contributor.author	Shaw, Bruce E.	en_US
dc.contributor.author	Langer, J. S.	en_US
dc.date.accessioned	2007-04-04T13:07:36Z
dc.date.available	2007-04-04T13:07:36Z
dc.date.issued	1994-10	en_US
dc.description.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.	en_US
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dc.identifier.citation	http://techreports.library.cornell.edu:8081/Dienst/UI/1.0/Display/cul.tc/94-196	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/1813/5529
dc.language.iso	en_US	en_US
dc.publisher	Cornell University	en_US
dc.subject	theory center	en_US
dc.title	Slip Complexity in a Crustal-Plane Model of an Earthquake Fault	en_US
dc.type	technical report	en_US