Paul Martin Mai

TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyzed a large number of seismic slip distributions both measured at the surface after earthquakes (44 profiles) and derived from slip inversion models (76 models) and found that they are roughly triangular both along strike and dip, and most of them (70-80%) are asymmetric.

TL;DR: In this article, a spectral element method was used to investigate the diversity of rupture styles on faults governed by velocity-and-state-dependent friction with dramatic velocity-weakening at high slip rate.

TL;DR: In this article, the effects of off-fault plastic energy dissipation in 2D in-plane dynamic rupture simulations under velocity-andstate-dependent friction with severe weakening at high slip velocity were investigated.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the evolution of dynamic rupture in numerical models of a fault subjected to heterogeneous stress fields with varying statistical properties and found that the nucleation zone of the simulated earthquake ruptures in general has a complex shape, but its average size is determined only by the material parameters and the friction law.

TL;DR: In this article, a 2D continuum viscoelastoplastic model was developed to unravel the relation of recent megathrust earthquakes and long-term deformation, and the validation of this numerical tool was extended to a realistic subduction zone setting that resembles Southern Chile.