Simulation study of the inhomogeneous Olami-Feder-Christensen model of earthquakes
arXiv:1002.3865 · doi:10.1140/epjb/e2010-10503-4
Abstract
Statistical properties of the inhomogeneous version of the Olami-Feder-Christensen (OFC) model of earthquakes is investigated by numerical simulations. The spatial inhomogeneity is assumed to be dynamical. Critical features found in the original homogeneous OFC model, e.g., the Gutenberg-Richter law and the Omori law are often weakened or suppressed in the presence of inhomogeneity, whereas the characteristic features found in the original homogeneous OFC model, e.g., the near-periodic recurrence of large events and the asperity-like phenomena persist.
Shortened from the first version. To appear in European Physical Journal B
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