caa a22 4500 475814134 CHVBK 20180406123805.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170329e20001201xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/PL00001079 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/PL00001079 Precursory Seismic Activation and Critical-point Phenomena [Elektronische Daten] [J.B. Rundle, W. Klein, D.L. Turcotte, B.D. Malamud] —In this paper we relate the behavior of seismicity prior to a characteristic earthquake to the excitation in proximity to a spinodal instability. We illustrate the spinodal instability as the upper limit of superheated water prior to a steam explosion. We draw an analogy between the steam explosion and a characteristic earthquake, and show that the power-law activation associated with the spinodal instability is essentially identical to the power-law increase in Benioff strain observed prior to characteristic earthquakes. We find that theory and actual data give very similar results. Birkhauser Verlag Basel,, 2001 Key Words: Seismicity, spinodal, critical-point phenomena, characteristic earthquake, Benioff strain nationallicence Rundle J.B. Department of Physics and Colorado Center for Chaos and Complexity, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environment Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309, U.S.A. E-mail: rundle@cires.colorado.edu, US aut Klein W. Department of Physics and Center for Computational Science, Boston University, Boston, MA 02215, U.S.A. E-mail: klein@buphyc.bu.edu, US aut Turcotte D.L. Department of Geological Sciences, Cornell University, Snee Hall, Ithaca, NY 14853-1504, U.S.A. E-mails: turcotte@geology.cornell.edu, US aut Malamud B.D. Department of Geological Sciences, Cornell University, Snee Hall, Ithaca, NY 14853-1504, U.S.A. E-mails: bruce@malamud.com, US aut https://doi.org/10.1007/PL00001079 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/PL00001079 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Rundle J.B. Department of Physics and Colorado Center for Chaos and Complexity, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environment Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309, U.S.A. E-mail: rundle@cires.colorado.edu, US aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Klein W. Department of Physics and Center for Computational Science, Boston University, Boston, MA 02215, U.S.A. E-mail: klein@buphyc.bu.edu, US aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Turcotte D.L. Department of Geological Sciences, Cornell University, Snee Hall, Ithaca, NY 14853-1504, U.S.A. E-mails: turcotte@geology.cornell.edu, US aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Malamud B.D. Department of Geological Sciences, Cornell University, Snee Hall, Ithaca, NY 14853-1504, U.S.A. E-mails: bruce@malamud.com, US aut Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer