Precursory Seismic Activation and Critical-point Phenomena
By John B. Rundle, William H. Klein, D. L. Turcotte, Bruce D. Malamud. 2000
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Abstract—In this paper we relate the behavior of seismicity prior to a characteristic earthquake to the excitation in proximity to a spinodal instability. We illustrate the spinodal instability as the upper limit of superheated water prior to a steam explosion. We draw an analogy between the steam explosion and a characteristic earthquake, and show that the power-law activation associated with the spinodal instability is essentially identical to the power-law increase in Benioff strain observed prior to characteristic earthquakes. We find that theory and actual data give very similar results.
Subfields: Geophysics
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In Geophysics
- Y. Ben‐Zion
- Vladimir Lyakhovsky
- Robert Shcherbakov
- Donald L. Turcotte
- C. Sammis
- William Klein
- John B. Rundle
- Agnes Helmstetter
Citations in the corpus
- Micro and macroscopic models of rock fracture (2003, background): “A number of authors have considered brittle rupture in analogue to spinodal nucleation (Selinger et al. 1991; Rundle et al. 1996, 1999, 2000; Zapperi et al. 1999).”
- Statistical physics approach to understanding the multiscale dynamics of earthquake fault systems (2003, methodology): “…Giering and Kaminski, 1998; Holmes et al., 1996; Lermusiaux and Robinson, 1999; Miller et al., 1999; Molchan and Kagan, 1992; Mora, 1999; Matsu ura et al., 2001; Nijhout et al., 1997; Preisendorfer and Mobley, 1988; Rundle et al., 1999, 2000b, 2000c, 2000d, 2001, 2002; Tiampo et al., 2000, 2002b].”
- Accelerated Seismic Release and Related Aspects of Seismicity Patterns on Earthquake Faults (2001, methodology): “RUNDLE et al. (2000b) used scaling arguments to show that power-law time-to-failure buildup of cumulative Benioff strain may represent the scaling regime of a spinodal phase transition, with an exponent m= 1/4 close to the observed values.”