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Observations indicate that earthquakes and avalanches in magnetic systems (Barkhausen noise) exhibit broad regimes of power law size distributions and related scale-invariant quantities. We review results of simple models for earthquakes in heterogeneous fault zones and avalanches in magnets that belong to the same universality class and hence have many similarities. The studies highlight the roles of tuning parameters, associated with dynamic effects and property disorder, and the existence of several general dynamic regimes. The models suggest that changes in the values of the tuning parameters can modify the frequency size event statistics from a broad power law regime to a distribution of small events combined with characteristic system-size events (characteristic distribution). In a certain parameter range, the earthquake model exhibits mode switching between both distributions. The properties of individual events undergo corresponding changes in...
Abbreviations
- Critical point:
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A (phase transition) point in the parameter space of a physical system where the length-scale characteristic of its structure, called the correlation length ξ, becomes infinite and the system displays power law scaling behavior on all available scales. The associated critical power law exponents are universal, i.e., they are independent of the microscopic details of the system.
- Earthquake quantities:
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The most common form of earthquake data consists of seismic catalogs that list the time, location, and size of earthquakes in a given space-time domain. The size of earthquakes is usually specified by magnitudes associated with spectral amplitudes of seismograms at a given frequency and site-instrument conditions. The seismic potency and moment provide better physical characterizations for the overall size of earthquakes. Additional important quantities are the geometry of faulting (e.g., strike slip), stress drop at the source region, and radiated seismic energy.
- Mean field theory:
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A theoretical approximation with an interaction field that has constant strength and infinite range. In mean field approximation, every domain interacts equally strongly with every other domain, regardless of their relative distance.
- Renormalization group (RG):
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A set of mathematical tools and concepts used to describe the change of physics with the observation scale. Renormalization group techniques can be used to identify critical points of a system as fixed points under a coarse graining transformation and to calculate the associated critical power law exponents and the relevant tuning parameters. They can also be used to determine what changes to the system will leave the scaling exponents unchanged and thus to establish the extent of the associated universality class of the critical point.
- Seismic moment:
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A physical measure of earthquakes given by the rigidity at the source region times the seismic potency.
- Seismic potency:
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A physical measure for the size of earthquakes given by the integral of slip over the rupture area during a seismic event.
- Strike-slip fault:
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A style of faulting involving pure horizontal tangential motion, predicted for situations where the maximum and minimum principal stresses are both horizontal. Prominent examples include the San Andreas Fault in California, the Dead Sea Transform in the Levant, and the North Anatolian Fault in Turkey.
- Tuning parameters:
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Parameters such as disorder, temperature, pressure, driving force, etc., that span phase diagrams. Critical values of the tuning parameters describe critical points of the phase diagrams.
- Universality:
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Power law scaling exponents and scaling functions near a critical point are the same for a class of systems, referred to as universality class, independent of the microscopic details. Universal aspects typically depend only on a few basic physical attributes, such as symmetries, range of interactions, dimensions, and dynamics.
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We thank Daniel S. Fisher, James R. Rice, James P. Sethna, Michael B. Weissman, Deniz Ertas, Matthias Holschneider, Amit Mehta, Gert Zöller, and many others for the very helpful discussions. K.D. acknowledges support from the National Science Foundation, the NSF-funded Materials Computation Center, and IBM. YBZ acknowledges support from the National Science Foundation, the United States Geological Survey, and the Southern California Earthquake Center.
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Dahmen, K.A., Ben-Zion, Y. (2022). Physics of Jerky Motion in Slowly Driven Magnetic and Earthquake Fault Systems. In: Meyers, R.A. (eds) Encyclopedia of Complexity and Systems Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-27737-5_299-4
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