A Boolean Delay Equation Model of Colliding Cascades. Part I: Multiple Seismic Regimes

1 International Institute of Earthquake Prediction Theory and Mathematical Geophysics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia, and Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics, University of California, Los Angeles, 90095-1567; e-mail: [email protected] 2 International Institute of Earthquake Prediction Theory and Mathematical Geophysics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia, and Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics and Department of Earth and Space Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles; e-mail: [email protected] 3 Department of Atmospheric Sciences and Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics, University of California, Los Angeles, and Département Tere-Atmosphère-Océan and Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris; e-mail: ghil@ atmos.ucla.edu 4 To whom correspondence should be addressed. Received October 23, 2001; accepted October 11, 2002