Self-organisation and dissipation in real and synthetic earthquake populations

Energy released from the Earth’s crust in the form of earthquakes commonly follows a powerlaw gamma type probability distribution. This spontaneous organisation is in apparent contradiction to the second law of thermodynamics that states that a system should naturally evolve to a state of maximum di...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Al-Kindy, Fahad H. Y.
Other Authors: Main, Ian G. ; Williams, Wyn
Published: University of Edinburgh 2004
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Online Access:https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.561851