TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2015//
TI  - Universal Quake Statistics: From Compressed Nanocrystals to Earthquakes
JO  - Scientific reports
A1  - Uhl, Jonathan T.
A1  - Pathak, Shivesh
A1  - Schorlemmer, Danijel
A1  - Liu, Xin
A1  - Swindeman, Ryan
A1  - Brinkman, Braden A. W.
A1  - LeBlanc, Michael
A1  - Tsekenis, Georgios
A1  - Friedman, Nir
A1  - Behringer, Robert
A1  - Denisov, Dmitry
A1  - Schall, Peter
A1  - Gu, Xiaojun
A1  - Wright, Wendelin J.
A1  - Hufnagel, Todd
A1  - Jennings, Andrew
A1  - Greer, Julia R.
A1  - Liaw, P. K.
A1  - Becker, Thorsten
A1  - Dresen, Georg
A1  - Dahmen, Karin A.
SP  - e16493
EP  - e16493
VL  - 5
IS  - 
N2  - Slowly-compressed single crystals, bulk metallic glasses (BMGs), rocks, granular materials, and the earth all deform via intermittent slips or "quakes". We find that although these systems span 12 decades in length scale, they all show the same scaling behavior for their slip size distributions and other statistical properties. Remarkably, the size distributions follow the same power law multiplied with the same exponential cutoff. The cutoff grows with applied force for materials spanning length scales from nanometers to kilometers. The tuneability of the cutoff with stress reflects "tuned critical" behavior, rather than self-organized criticality (SOC), which would imply stress-independence. A simple mean field model for avalanches of slipping weak spots explains the agreement across scales. It predicts the observed slip-size distributions and the observed stress-dependent cutoff function. The results enable extrapolations from one scale to another, and from one force to another, across different materials and structures, from nanocrystals to earthquakes.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 2045-2322
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep16493
ID  - ref1
ER  -