Universal Quake Statistics: From Compressed Nanocrystals to Earthquakes

Uhl, Jonathan T.; Pathak, Shivesh; Schorlemmer, Danijel; Liu, Xin; Swindeman, Ryan; Brinkman, Braden A.  W.; LeBlanc, Michael; Tsekenis, Georgios; Friedman, Nir; Behringer, Robert; Denisov, Dmitry; Schall, Peter; Gu, Xiaojun; Wright, Wendelin J.; Hufnagel, Todd; Jennings, Andrew; Greer, Julia R.; Liaw, P. K.; Becker, Thorsten; Dresen, Georg; Dahmen, Karin A.

doi:10.1038/srep16493

Title: Universal Quake Statistics: From Compressed Nanocrystals to Earthquakes

Journal Article · Tue Nov 17 00:00:00 EST 2015 · Scientific Reports

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1038/srep16493· OSTI ID:1241133

Uhl, Jonathan T. ^[1]; Pathak, Shivesh ^[2]; Schorlemmer, Danijel ^[3]; Liu, Xin ^[2]; Swindeman, Ryan ^[2]; Brinkman, Braden A. W. ^[2]; LeBlanc, Michael ^[2]; Tsekenis, Georgios ^[2]; Friedman, Nir ^[2]; Behringer, Robert ^[4]; Denisov, Dmitry ^[5]; Schall, Peter ^[5]; Gu, Xiaojun ^[6]; Wright, Wendelin J. ^[6]; Hufnagel, Todd ^[7]; Jennings, Andrew ^[8]; Greer, Julia R. ^[8]; Liaw, P. K. ^[9]; Becker, Thorsten ^[10]; Dresen, Georg ^[11] more »

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Univ. of Illinois, Urbana, IL (United States). Department of Physics
Helmholtz-Zentrum Potsdam (HZP), (Germany). German Research Centre for GeoSciences; Univ. of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA (United States)
Duke Univ., Durham, NC (United States)
Univ. of Amsterdam (Netherlands)
Bucknell Univ., Lewisburg, PA (United States)
Johns Hopkins Univ., Baltimore, MD (United States)
California Inst. of Technology (CalTech), Pasadena, CA (United States)
Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN (United States)
Univ. of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA (United States)
Helmholtz-Zentrum Potsdam (HZP), (Germany). German Research Centre for GeoSciences

Slowly-compressed single crystals, bulk metallic glasses (BMGs), rocks, granular materials, and the earth all deform via intermittent slips or “quakes”. We find that although these systems span 12 decades in length scale, they all show the same scaling behavior for their slip size distributions and other statistical properties. Remarkably, the size distributions follow the same power law multiplied with the same exponential cutoff. The cutoff grows with applied force for materials spanning length scales from nanometers to kilometers. The tuneability of the cutoff with stress reflects “tuned critical” behavior, rather than self-organized criticality (SOC), which would imply stress-independence. A simple mean field model for avalanches of slipping weak spots explains the agreement across scales. It predicts the observed slip-size distributions and the observed stressdependent cutoff function. In conclusion, the results enable extrapolations from one scale to another, and from one force to another, across different materials and structures, from nanocrystals to earthquakes.

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Research Organization:: Univ. of Illinois, Urbana, IL (United States). Department of Physic

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Fossil Energy (FE)

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OSTI ID:: 1241133

Journal Information:: Scientific Reports, Vol. 5; ISSN 2045-2322

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