Statut | Confirmé |
Série | FORUM-ENS |
Domaines | cond-mat.stat-mech |
Date | Mercredi 13 Mars 2024 |
Heure | 12:45 |
Institut | LPENS |
Salle | 3 rue d Ulm, College de France |
Nom de l'orateur | Petrelis |
Prenom de l'orateur | François |
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Institution de l'orateur | LPENS |
Titre | Earthquake statistical properties: an explanation for the distribution of magnitude and for the existence of aftershocks |
Résumé | Earthquakes in nature follow several statistical properties. In particular, the distribution of energy released by an earthquake (Gutenberg-Richter's law) and the frequency of aftershocks after a large event (Omori's law) are both power-laws. By studying several earthquake models, we have shown that the Gutenberg-Richter law results from the spatial distribution of the stress field. This field is self-similar at large scale and for two dimensionnal systems can be modelled as a random surface. Using this analogy, a series of predictions is made that includes the Gutenberg- Richter law and the value of its exponent (so called b-value) together with the existence of aftershocks and their temporal distribution following Omori's law. |
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