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A toy model of earthquakes — Random Domino Automaton — is investigated in its finite version. A procedure of reconstruction of intrinsic dynamical parameters of the model from produced statistics of avalanches is presented. Examples of exponential, inverse-power and M-shape distributions of avalanches illustrate remarkable flexibility of the model as well as the efficiency of proposed reconstruction procedure.
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Białecki, M. From statistics of avalanches to microscopic dynamics parameters in a toy model of earthquakes. Acta Geophys. 61, 1677–1689 (2013). https://doi.org/10.2478/s11600-013-0111-7
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