A cellular automaton simulation tool for modelling seismicity in the region of Xanthi |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Democritus University of Thrace, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Laboratory of Electronics, Vas. Sofias, PROKAT, GR-671 00 Xanthi, Greece;2. Aristotle University, Department of Geophysics, School of Geology, GR-541 24 Thessaloniki, Greece;1. Department of Chemistry, Amirkabir University of Technology, Hafez, Tehran, Iran;2. Department of Textile engineering, Amirkabir University of Technology, Hafez, Tehran, Iran;3. Food and Drug Laboratory Research Center, Food and Drug Department, Ministry of Health and Medical Education, Tehran, Iran;1. Department of Nanofusion Engineering, and Cogno-Mechatronics Engineering, Pusan National University, Busan 609-735, Republic of Korea;2. Department of Biotechnology Research, National Fisheries Research and Development Institute, Busan 619-705, Republic of Korea;1. Department of Civil Engineering, Faculty of Engineering and Design, Lishui University, Lishui 323000, PR China;2. Department of Civil Engineering, International Doctoral Innovation Centre, University of Nottingham Ningbo, China, Ningbo 315100, PR China;3. Ningbo New Materials Institute, The University of Nottingham, Ningbo 315042, PR China;4. School of Civil Engineering, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, UK;5. Civil Engineering and Environmental Science, University of Oklahoma, USA |
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| Abstract: | Seismicity is an extended geophysical characteristic of the Greek dominion. There are certain areas of high seismic activity, as well as, regions of low seismicity where strong earthquakes are rather rare events. Consequently, it is of great interest to present a methodology concerning the earthquake process in Greece even for areas considered to be of low seismicity. In this paper, a study of the earthquake activity of an area in Northeastern Greece, centred at Xanthi, Thrace, extending over a region of radius R = 80 km, during a certain time period is presented. A two-dimensional cellular automaton (CA) dynamic system consisting of cells representing charges is used for the simulation of the earthquake process. The model has been tested as well as calibrated using the recorded events of the above-mentioned region as initial conditions. The simulation results are found in good quantitative and qualitative agreement with the Gutenberg–Richter (GR) scaling relations. Finally, the CA model has a user-friendly interface and enables the user to change several of its parameters, in order to study various hypotheses concerning the seismicity of the region under consideration. |
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