Massimo Cocco

TL;DR: It is proposed that aftershocks of large earthquakes in such geologic environments may be driven by the coseismic release of trapped, high-pressure fluids propagating through damaged zones created by the mainshock, which may provide a link between earthquakes, aftershock, crust/mantle degassing and earthquake-triggered large-scale fluid flow.

TL;DR: It seems that faults are lubricated during earthquakes, irrespective of the fault rock composition and of the specific weakening mechanism involved, according to a large set of published and unpublished experiments.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a theoretical framework for earthquake cycles based on calculating the stress changes caused by one event and assessing where and what mechanism of earthquakes these changes may promote, which is different from investigating the dynamic rupture growth requiring the reconstruction of the spatiotemporal evolution of the stress on the fault plane.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors considered an anisotropic fault zone and introduced a Skempton tensor for pore pressure changes to evaluate the validity of the concept of effective friction coefficient.

TL;DR: A joint inversion of tsunami and geodetic data suggests that the 2010 Chile earthquake rupture only partly overlapped with the zone of preseismic locking as discussed by the authors, where tectonic loading has been accumulating since the great 1835 earthquake.