Nucleation process in the Burridge-Knopoff model of earthquakes

Author: Ueda Yushi   Morimoto Shouji   Kakui Shingo   Yamamoto Takumi   Kawamura Hikaru  

Publisher: Edp Sciences

E-ISSN: 1286-4854|106|6|69001-69001

ISSN: 0295-5075

Source: EPL (EUROPHYSICS LETTERS), Vol.106, Iss.6, 2014-06, pp. : 69001-69001

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Abstract

The nucleation process of the one-dimensional Burridge-Knopoff model of earthquakes obeying the rate- and state-dependent friction law is studied both analytically and numerically. The properties of the nucleation dynamics, the nucleation lengths and the duration times are examined together with their continuum limits.