caa a22 4500 475814215 CHVBK 20180406123805.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170329e20001201xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/PL00001083 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/PL00001083 Aki K. Obsevatoire Volcanologique du Piton de la Fournaise, 14 Route Nationale 3, 97418 La plaine des Cafres, La Reunion, France. E-mail: aki@iremia.univ-reunion.fr, FR aut Scale-dependence in Earthquake Processes and Seismogenic Structures [Elektronische Daten] [K. Aki] —We provide a positive answer to the question whether large earthquakes can be separated from small ones using various observations on the earthquake processes and seismogenic structures. For California, the boundary of separation is at M = 5. This conclusion leads to the possibility of deterministic modeling of earthquake occurrence for prediction. We recognize, however, that the system of earthquake occurrence involves nonlinear physics with many degrees of freedom. We suggest that the geometrical barriers and asperities may be a good starting point for the modeling. We also discuss the implication of our finding on the numerical simulation of earthquake rupture propagation, and conclude that the model fault zone must be made thicker for a more realistic simulation of major earthquakes. Birkhauser Verlag Basel,, 2000 Key Words: Scaling, earthquake, fault, prediction, modeling and rupture nationallicence https://doi.org/10.1007/PL00001083 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/PL00001083 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Aki K. Obsevatoire Volcanologique du Piton de la Fournaise, 14 Route Nationale 3, 97418 La plaine des Cafres, La Reunion, France. E-mail: aki@iremia.univ-reunion.fr, FR aut Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer