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Delayed self-organized criticality and earthquake modeling

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Delayed self-organized criticality is defined. It is shown to preserve the power-law behavior of self-organized criticality with a significant change in the exponents. A delayed version of the Ito—Matsuzaki model for earthquakes is constructed and studied. This model explains some fractal features of earthquakes as well as the Gutenberg-Richter and Omori laws. Furthermore theb value obtained from the delayed model is closer to observations than theb value of the undelayed model.

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  1. Mathematics Department, Faculty of Science, Mansoura University, 35516, Mansoura, Egypt

    A. S. Elgazzar, E. Ahmed & M. H. Mousa

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Elgazzar, A.S., Ahmed, E. & Mousa, M.H. Delayed self-organized criticality and earthquake modeling. Int J Theor Phys 36, 3065–3069 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02435727

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