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creators_name: Sacks, Selwyn
creators_name: Rydelek, Paul
corp_creators: Department of Terrestrial Magnetism Carnegie Institution of Washington 5241 Broad Branch Rd., NW Washington, D.C. 20015 (I.S.S.)
corp_creators: Center for Earthquake Research and Information The University of Memphis 3890 Central Ave. Memphis, Tennessee 38152 (P.A.R.)
title: Earthquake  "Quanta" as an Explanation for Observed Magnitudes and Stress Drops
ispublished: pub
subjects: MP2_2
divisions: EPOS-P
full_text_status: none
abstract: The familiar linear relation (Gutenberg-Richter) between the logarithm 
of  the  number  of  earthquakes  and  their  magnitude  is  commonly  ascribed  to  the 
distribution  (fractal) of fault  sizes  in  a  self-similar process.  We  show  that  a  concept 
of earthquake  quanta  whose  failure is  governed by  simple  physics  and  suggested by 
observations  explains not only the Gutenberg-Richter relation but also the relatively 
constant  stress  drop  for larger  magnitude  events.  Results  from  computer  simulation 
are  consistent with  observations  from detailed  seismicity studies.
date: 1995-06
date_type: published
publication: Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America
volume: 85
number: 3
publisher: Seismological Society of America
pagerange: 808-813
refereed: TRUE
issn: 0037-1106
access_IS-EPOS: limited
owner: Publisher
citation:   Sacks, Selwyn and Rydelek, Paul  (1995) Earthquake "Quanta" as an Explanation for Observed Magnitudes and Stress Drops.  Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, 85 (3).  pp. 808-813.