Tectonic plate velocity

Carlson et al. 1994, Schmittbhul et al 1993, Vilotte et al 1994). In fact, Schmitbhul et al (1993) noted that the system shows earthquake-like almost chaotic solutions for very small values of = Nv/y/R while the solutions are soliton-like for 0 of the order of unity. This size-dependent transition has been extensively studied by Vilotte et al (1994) and Anan-thakrishna and Ramachandran (1994), who also showed that the same transition occurs as the parameter a in (4.4) decreases from higher values. As the blocks in the model represent the independent junctions where the earth s crust rests on a moving tectonic plate (for any particular epicentre region, in case of earthquakes), the number N of such blocks in the model is usually quite small. Also, the (dimensionless) tectonic plate velocity v is very small in reality and of the order of 10 (Carlson et al 1994). This... 

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