NONLINEAR PHENOMENA IN COMPLEX SYSTEMS
An Interdisciplinary Journal

2008, Vol.11, No.2, pp.274-279


Spatiotemporal Chaos into the Hellenic Seismogenesis: Evidence for a Global Seismic Strange Attractor.
A. C. Iliopoulos, G. P. Pavlos, and M. A. Athanasiu

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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