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

小行星9314021 这个为期两年的奖项支持美国-法国加州大学洛杉矶分校（UCLA）的Leon Knopoff和尼斯大学的Didier Sornette合作进行地震学研究。 研究目的是探讨强震前的异常地震活动的一种熔断模型。 美国研究人员和加州大学洛杉矶分校的研究小组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。 法国专家组在评估地震预测的热引信理论的物理学方面的专门知识对此起到了补充作用。 该模型考虑了断层几何形状与地震时空分布的关系。 该研究可应用于地震预报问题。它对石油生产工业有潜在的好处，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. ***