Patterns of synthetic seismicity and recurrence times in a spring-block earthquake model

In this paper, we investigated the spring-block model proposed by Olami, Fe der and Christensen (OFC) [15], to find properties of real seismicity, foll owing the same procedure that Brown, Scholz and Rundle (BSR) [19]. We find that the results of the OFC model can reproduce the real seismicity stairca se graphics and produce seismicity patterns similar to real patterns. We di scuss the advantages of synthetic seismicity catalogues and about the possi bility of recognizing seismic precursory quiescence in these catalogues. We find that the distribution of large earthquake recurrence times in the OFC model is log-normal for the elastic parameters values used in that model.