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- Title
Statistical analogies between earthquakes, micro-quakes in metals and avalanches in the 1D Burridge-Knopoff model.
- Authors
Kuki, András; Lipcsei, Sándor; Gere, István; Járai-Szabó, Ferenc; Gergely, Attila; Ugi, Dávid; Ispánovity, Péter Dusán; Dankházi, Zoltán; Groma, István; Néda, Zoltán
- Abstract
Universalities and intriguing analogies in the statistics of avalanches are revealed for three physical systems defined on largely different length and energy scales. Earthquakes induced by tectonic scale dynamics, micro-scale level quakes observed from slipping crystallographic planes in metals and a one-dimensional, room-scale spring-block type Burridge-Knopoff model is studied from similar statistical viewpoints. The validity of the Gutenberg-Richter law for the probability density of the energies dissipated in the avalanches is proven for all three systems. By analysing data for three different seismic zones and performing acoustic detection for different Zn samples under deformation, universality for the involved scaling exponent is revealed. With proper parameter choices the 1D Burridge-Knopoff model is able to reproduce the same scaling law. The recurrence times of earthquakes and micro-quakes with magnitudes above a given threshold present again similar distributions and striking quantitative similarities. However, the 1D Burridge-Knopoff model cannot account for the correlations observed in such statistics.
- Subjects
EARTHQUAKES; INDUCED seismicity; EARTHQUAKE magnitude; STATISTICAL correlation; AVALANCHES; EARTHQUAKE zones; ANALOGY
- Publication
Geofizika, 2023, Vol 40, Issue 1, p1
- ISSN
0352-3659
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.15233/gfz.2023.40.4