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Year of Publication:
1996
Journal Title:
Physical Review Letters
Journal Date:
Jul 29
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Volume:
77
Issue:
5
Pages:
972-975
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0031-9007
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ISI:A1996UY95200046
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Abstract:
We study numerically the behavior of a two-dimensional elastic plate (a crustal plane) that terminates along one of its edges at a 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 events and an excess of large events. For the small events, the moments scale with rupture length in a manner that is consistent with seismological observations. For the large events, rupture occurs in the form of narrow propagating pulses.
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