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Nonlinear Network Dynamics on Earthquake Fault Systems

Paul B. Rundle, John B. Rundle, Kristy F. Tiampo, Jorge S. Sa Martins, Seth McGinnis, & William Klein

Published October 6, 2001, SCEC Contribution #540

Earthquake faults occur in interacting networks having emergent space-time modes of behavior not displayed by isolated faults. Using simulations of the major faults in southern California, we find that the physics depends on the elastic interactions among the faults defined by network topology, as well as on the nonlinear physics of stress dissipation arising from friction on the faults. Our results have broad applications to other leaky threshold systems such as integrate-and-fire neural networks.

Citation
Rundle, P. B., Rundle, J. B., Tiampo, K. F., Sa Martins, J. S., McGinnis, S., & Klein, W. (2001). Nonlinear Network Dynamics on Earthquake Fault Systems. Physical Review Letters, 87(14), 148501.1-148501.4. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.87.148501.