U.S.-France Cooperative Research: Models of Spatio-temporal Clustering of Earthquakes

9314021 Knopoff这个为期两年的奖项支持加州大学洛杉矶分校(UCLA)的Leon Knopoff和尼斯大学的Didier Sornette在地震学方面的美法合作研究。研究目的是研究强震前前兆地震活动的引信模型。这位美国研究人员和加州大学洛杉矶分校的团队为这次合作带来了使裂缝融合模型适应地震问题的重要专业知识。与之相辅相成的是，这家法国集团在评估地震预报的热引信理论的物理方面的专业知识。该模型考虑了断层几何形状与地震时空分布之间的关系。该研究可应用于地震预报问题。这对石油生产行业有潜在的好处，因为它将加强对地震活动与水力压裂关系的理解。***

9314021 Knopoff This two-year award supports U.S.-France cooperative research in seismology between Leon Knopoff of the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) and Didier Sornette of the University of Nice. The objective of the research is to study a fuse model of precursory seismicity prior to strong earthquakes. The U.S. investigator and the group at UCLA brings to this collaboration significant expertise in adapting crack fusion models to earthquake problems. This is complemented by the French group's expertise in evaluating the physics of a thermal fuse theory of earthquake prediction. The proposed model involves the relationship between fault geometry and earthquake space-time distributions. The research can be applied to problems of earthquake prediction. It is of potential benefit to the petroleum production industry in that it will enhance understanding of the relationship of seismicity to hydrofactures. ***