An analysis of the process of acceleration of seismic energy emission in laboratory experiments on destruction of rocks and before strong earthquakeson Kamchatka and in Italy
R. Di Giovambattista et Ys. Tyupkin, An analysis of the process of acceleration of seismic energy emission in laboratory experiments on destruction of rocks and before strong earthquakeson Kamchatka and in Italy, TECTONOPHYS, 338(3-4), 2001, pp. 339-351
The time-to-failure model is a technique in which a failure function is fit
ted to a time series of accumulated Benioff strain before a large earthquak
e. We analyze the relation of the time-to-failure model to the hypothesis o
f fractal structure of seismicity. A power law failure function (Varnes, 19
89; Bufe and Varnes, 1993) and its log-periodic generalization Somette and
Sammis, 1995 are discussed. The results of application of the log-periodic
time-to-failure model to the analysis of the process of acceleration of sei
smic energy emission in the laboratory experiments on rock destruction and
before strong earthquakes on Kamchatka and in Italy are presented. (C) 2001
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