Complex Critical Exponents from Renormalization Group Theory of Earthquakes: Implications for Earthquake Predictions

• Main Authors: Sornette, Didier, Sammis, Charles
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: HAL CCSD 1995
• Subjects: [PHYS.HIST]Physics [physics]/Physics archives; Loma; Aleutian Island
• Online Access: https://hal.science/jpa-00247086; https://hal.science/jpa-00247086/document; https://hal.science/jpa-00247086/file/ajp-jp1v5p607.pdf; https://doi.org/10.1051/jp1:1995154

Several authors have proposed discrete renormalization group models of earthquakes, viewing them as a kind of dynamical critical phenomena. Here, we propose that the assumed discrete scale invariance stems from the irreversible and intermittent nature of rupture which ensures a breakdown of translat...