Large scale parallel and distributed simulations and visualizations of the Olami-Feder-Christiensen earthquake model

In this paper we present numerical results and visualizations obtained from large-scale parallel and distributed simulations of the Olami-Feder-Christiensen (OFC) earthquake model. This model is a two-dimensional cellular automata, constructed in order to simulate earthquake activity. For this model we determine its exponents of the power law behavior of the histogram of the size of earthquakes; we study the final state for several values of the parameters of the model; and we determine dynamic behavior by visualizations of the site frequency histogram.