@article{ref1,
title="Simulation study of earthquakes based on the two-dimensional Burridge-Knopoff model with long-range interactions",
journal="Physical review E: Statistical, nonlinear, and soft matter physics",
year="2008",
author="Mori, T. and Kawamura, Hikaru",
volume="77",
number="5 Pt 1",
pages="051123-051123",
abstract="Spatiotemporal correlations of the two-dimensional (2D) spring-block (Burridge-Knopoff) models of earthquakes with the long-range interblock interactions are extensively studied by means of numerical computer simulations. The long-range interaction derived from an elastic theory, which takes account of the effect of the elastic body adjacent to the fault plane, falls off with distance r as 1r;{3} . Comparison is made with the properties of the corresponding short-range models studied earlier. Seismic spatiotemporal correlations of the long-range models generally tend to be weaker than those of the short-range models. The magnitude distribution exhibits a&quot;near-critical&quot;behavior, i.e., a power-law-like behavior close to the Gutenberg-Richter law, for a wide parameter range with its B -value, B approximately 0.55 , insensitive to the model parameters, in sharp contrast to that of the 2D short-range model and those of the 1D short-range and long-range models where such a near-critical behavior is realized only by fine tuning the model parameters. In contrast to the short-range case, the mean stress drop at a seismic event of the long-range model is nearly independent of its magnitude, consistent with the observation. Large events often accompany foreshocks together with a doughnutlike quiescence as their precursors, while they hardly accompany aftershocks with almost negligible seismic correlations observed after the main shock.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1539-3755",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}