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Earthquakes - chaotic or not?

Dreamer
in Classical Physics

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Is it possible for an earthquake to be defined as linear/non-chaotic phenomena?

 

sorry for the weird phrasing, i'm not a physicist.

Earthquakes are pretty chaotic, in both the strict and general meanings of the term.

Frequency vs magnitude for earthquakes follows a log scale. If you have columns of magnitude and frequency and plot the log of both variables you should get a straight line. I think it's called "following a 1/f pattern". Little ones happen lots, big ones happen rarely.

 

oops...unless you were talking about the dynamics of a single earthquake.

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