Synthetic Earthquakes Obtained with Two Cellular Automata Models and Comparison with Real Seismicity

摘要

The most useful models in the earthquake description are supposed to have a stress distribution, which is usually modeled by means of a cellular automaton with homogeneous distribution. The geological evidence has shown that the Earth crust during an earthquake is broken into fragments in a scale range that goes from millimeters to hundreds of kilometers and it has in its structure a fractal distribution. In this work two cellular automata have been used to describe a seismic fau properties of the models observed in real seismicity have been obtained, especially the Gutenberg-Richter law.