Physics Models of Earthquake

TL;DR

This paper reviews various physics-based models of earthquakes, highlighting their role in understanding earthquake dynamics and exploring potential prediction methods within model parameter ranges.

Contribution

It provides a comprehensive review of physics models of earthquakes and discusses approaches for predicting catastrophic events based on these models.

Findings

Models capture essential features of earthquake phenomena

Methods for predicting catastrophic events are suggested

Models help understand earthquake dynamics

Abstract

Since long back, scientists have been putting enormous effort to understand earthquake dynamics -the goal is to develop a successful prediction scheme which can provide reliable alarm that an earthquake is imminent. Model studies sometimes help to understand in some extend the basic dynamics of the real systems and therefore is an important part of earthquake research. In this report, we review several physics models which capture some essential features of earthquake phenomenon and also suggest methods to predict catastrophic events being within the range of model parameters.