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Evidence for and implications of self-healing pulses of slip in earthquake rupture
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In this article, a qualitative model is presented that produces self-healing slip pulses, which is the key feature of the model is the assumption that friction on the fault surface is inversely related to the local slip velocity, and the model has the following features: high static strength of materials (kilobar range), low static stress drops (in the range of tens of bars).About:
This article is published in Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors.The article was published on 1990-11-01. It has received 901 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Slip (materials science) & Earthquake rupture.read more
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The statistical mechanics of earthquakes
TL;DR: In this article, the authors focus on the rise of the statistical mechanical view of earthquakes as a kind of "phase transition" and show how recent developments are leading to a view of earthquake fault systems based on modern statistical mechanics.
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Dynamic Rupture Processes on a Dipping Fault, and Estimates of Stress Drop and Strength Excess from the Results of Waveform Inversion
Takeshi Mikumo,Takashi Miyatake +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the dynamic rupture process of the 1961 Kita-Mino earthquake in central Japan with constraints of the fault parameters derived from the results of waveform inversion analysis.
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Relating High‐Velocity Rock‐Friction Experiments to Coseismic Slip in the Presence of Melts
TL;DR: In this paper, a simple mathematical model coupling melting, extrusion and thermal diffusion reproduces some observed experimental features such as the duration of the weakening stage and the convergence to a steady state.
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Rupture Pulse Characterization: Self-Healing, Self-Similar, Expanding Solutions in a Continuum Model of Fault Dynamics
Stefan Nielsen,Jean M. Carlson +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigate the dynamics of self-healing rupture pulses on a stressed fault, embedded in a three-dimensional scalar medium, and define a dimensionless parameter, H, which depends on the friction, the prestress, and properties of the medium.
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On the interpretation of subevents in teleseismic waveforms: The 1994 Bolivia deep earthquake revisited
TL;DR: In this article, the authors evaluate the methodologies that aim at resolving the space-time slip distribution during large earthquakes and demonstrate that these features can be interpreted as the instantaneous centroid locations of the moment release history.
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