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Aochi & Ide 2004
Aochi, H. and Ide, S. (2004). Numerical study on multi-scaling earthquake rupture. Geophysical Research Letters 31: doi: 10.1029/2003GL018708. issn: 0094-8276.

A new numerical scheme using a renormalization and a 3D boundary integral equation method is proposed to simulate a multi-scaling dynamic rupture of earthquakes: How a small earthquake grows up to a large one in spatially heterogeneous field of critical slip-weakening distance Dc (fracture energy Gc)? We examine the case where Dc grows according to a hypocentral distance L (DcL¿). When ¿ = 1, we succeed to show numerically that a rupture propagates at a constant rupture speed in uniform initial stress field. This result still keeps the scaling relation of Gc and Dc inferred for earthquake size, however no scale-dependent initial process is required. The break of the proportional relation changes rupture speed as well as slip velocity to keep the energy balance. The rupture is accelerated up to a speed even faster than the shear wave velocity (¿ 1).

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Keywords
Seismology, Earthquake parameters, Seismology, Earthquake dynamics and mechanics, Seismology, Theory and modeling, Structural Geology, Fractures and faults
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Geophysical Research Letters
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