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cond-mat.stat-mech2002★ 166 cited
Slider-Block Friction Model for Landslides: Application to Vaiont and La Clapiere Landslides
A. Helmstetter, D. Sornette, J. -R. Grasso +3
Accelerating displacements preceding some catastrophic landslides have been found empirically to follow a time-to-failure power law, corresponding to a finite-time singularity of t…
cond-mat.stat-mech2002★ 221 cited
Mainshocks are aftershocks of conditional foreshocks: How do foreshock statistical properties emerge from aftershock laws
A. Helmstetter, D. Sornette, J. -R. Grasso
The inverse Omori law for foreshocks discovered in the 1970s states that the rate of earthquakes prior to a mainshock increases on average as a power law ~ 1/(t_c-t)^p' of the time…