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JDR Vol.9 No.3 pp. 264-271
(2014)
doi: 10.20965/jdr.2014.p0264

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Modeling Earthquakes Using Fractal Circular Patch Models with Lessons from the 2011 Tohoku-Oki Earthquake

Satoshi Ide* and Hideo Aochi**

*Department of Earth and Planetary Science, The University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan

**Bureau de Recherches Géologiques et Miniéres, 3 Avenue Claude Guillemin, 45060 Orléans Cedex 2, France

Received:
January 9, 2014
Accepted:
March 28, 2014
Published:
June 1, 2014
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Keywords:
numerical simulation, dynamic rupture, fractal circular patches, the 2011 Tohoku-Oki earthquake
Abstract
Earthquakes occur in a complex hierarchical fault system, meaning that a realistic mechanically-consistent model is required to describe heterogeneity simply and over a wide scale. We developed a simple conceptual mechanical model using fractal circular patches associated with fracture energy on a fault plane. This model explains the complexity and scaling relation in the dynamic rupture process. We also show that such a fractal patch model is useful in simulating longterm seismicity in a hierarchal fault system by using external loading. In these studies, an earthquake of any magnitude appears as a completely random cascade growing from a small patch to larger patches. This model is thus potentially useful as a benchmarking scenario for evaluating probabilistic gain in probabilistic earthquake forecasts. The model is applied to the real case of the 2011 Tohoku-Oki earthquake based on prior information from a seismicity catalog to reproduce the complex rupture process of this very large earthquake and its resulting ground motion. Provided that a high-quality seismicity catalog is available for other regions, similar approach using this conceptual model may provide scenarios for other potential large earthquakes.
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S. Ide and H. Aochi, “Modeling Earthquakes Using Fractal Circular Patch Models with Lessons from the 2011 Tohoku-Oki Earthquake,” J. Disaster Res., Vol.9 No.3, pp. 264-271, 2014.
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