| Session Details | |
| Section | SE - Solid Earth Sciences |
| Session Title | Earthquake Physics and Statistical Physics |
| Main Convener | Dr. Yi-Hsuan Wu (IES, Academia Sinica, Taiwan) |
| Co-convener(s) | Dr. Ya-Ting Lee (National Central University, Taiwan) Dr. John B. Rundle (UC Davis, United States) Prof. Chien-Chih Chen (Graduate Institute of Geophysics, National Central University, Taiwan) |
| Session Description | Since an earthquake is caused by a slip on a fault, it’s obviously an important issue to understand how a fault generates from a slip. It’s over a large range of length scales from a micro-slip to a macro-fault. However, the study of earthquake is usually brought to two extreme scales- micro-slip and macro-fault. In recent decades, we have learned mechanics of rock fracture from laboratory experiment and characteristic of fault rupture from statistical methods, but there is still a lack of understanding of interaction between them due to the difficulty in studying a complex nonlinear dynamical system. This session is proposed to bring together the researches at all scales, discuss the relationship between each other, and explore the physical processes. Thus, papers which are associated with earthquake physics such as fault weakening, crack nucleation, and fracture process and with statistical physics of earthquake such as spatiotemporal variation of earthquakes, and scaling law of seismicity are all welcomed. |