Study of the scaling and temporal properties of a simplified earthquake model

Certain driven systems consisting of a large number of elements evolve towards a critical state with no characteristic time or length scales. This class of phenomena is described as Self-Organized Criticality (SOC). SOC relies on the condition of a slow driving of the systems and the existence of...

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Main Author: Groleau, Daniel
Format: Others
Language:English
Published: 2009
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2429/6675