Chakrabarti, Bikas K; Stinchcombe, Robin B - In: Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications 270 (1999) 1, pp. 27-34
Following the observations of the self-similarity in various length scales in the roughness of the fractured solid surfaces, we propose here a new model for the earthquake. We demonstrate rigorously that the contact area distribution between two fractal surfaces follows a unique power law. This...