Nucleation process in the Burridge-Knopoff model of earthquakes
  Nucleation process of the one-dimensional Burridge-Knopoff model of earthquakes obeying the rate- and state-dependent friction law is studied both analytically and numerically. The properties of the nucleation dynamics, the nucleation lengths and the duration times are examined together with their continuum limits. 
Yushi Ueda, Shouji Morimoto, Shingo Kakui, Takumi Yamamoto and Hikaru   Kawamura
physics.geo-ph cond-mat.other nlin.CD