2008, Vol.11, No.2, pp.274-279
Self-organized criticality (SOC) is one of the most discussed
concept for understanding the earthquake process and other scale
invariant physical processes but in contrast with chaos. In this
study, the concept of seismic low dimensional spatiotemporal chaos
is supported. For this reason, we used significant results
obtained by the nonlinear analysis of three earthquake data sets
a)Latitude, b)Longitude and c)inter-event time intervals of
earthquake events obtained in the broad Hellenic region. Our
results clearly reveal some kind of dynamical synchronization of
the local seismic active regions and the existence of a global
seismic strange attractor. Moreover, a unified model of
earthquakes is given by using concepts of the modern physical
theory of the far from equilibrium statistical processes.
Key words:
earthquakes, spatiotemporal chaos, SOC, nonlinear time
series analysis
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