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Coupled mechano-electrokinetic Burridge-Knopoff model of fault sliding events and transient geoelectric signals

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We introduce the first fully self-consistent numerical model combining seismic micro-ruptures, occurring within a generalized Burridge-Knopoff spring-block model, with the nucleation and propagation of electric charge pulses within a coupled mechano-electrokinetic system. This model provides a general theoretical framework for modeling and analyzing geoelectric anomalies to earthquakes. In particular, it is able to reproduce the unipolar pulses that have often been reported before large seismic events, as well as various previously reported anomalies in the statistical moments of the ambient electric fields and the shape of their power spectra.

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  1. Department of Earth Sciences, National Central University, 32001, Taoyuan, Taiwan

    Hong-Jia Chen & Chien-Chih Chen

  2. Earthquake-Disaster & Risk Evaluation and Management Center, National Central University, 32001, Taoyuan, Taiwan

    Chien-Chih Chen

  3. Lithophyse, 06300, Nice, France

    Guy Ouillon

  4. Department of Management, Technology and Economics, ETH Zürich, 8092, Zürich, Switzerland

    Didier Sornette

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Chen, HJ., Chen, CC., Ouillon, G. et al. Coupled mechano-electrokinetic Burridge-Knopoff model of fault sliding events and transient geoelectric signals. Eur. Phys. J. Spec. Top. 230, 67–84 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1140/epjst/e2020-000245-x

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