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The Mechanics of Earthquakes and Faulting
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The connection between faults and the seismicity generated is governed by the rate and state dependent friction laws -producing distinctive seismic styles of faulting and a gamut of earthquake phenomena including aftershocks, afterslip, earthquake triggering, and slow slip events.Abstract:
This essential reference for graduate students and researchers provides a unified treatment of earthquakes and faulting as two aspects of brittle tectonics at different timescales. The intimate connection between the two is manifested in their scaling laws and populations, which evolve from fracture growth and interactions between fractures. The connection between faults and the seismicity generated is governed by the rate and state dependent friction laws - producing distinctive seismic styles of faulting and a gamut of earthquake phenomena including aftershocks, afterslip, earthquake triggering, and slow slip events. The third edition of this classic treatise presents a wealth of new topics and new observations. These include slow earthquake phenomena; friction of phyllosilicates, and at high sliding velocities; fault structures; relative roles of strong and seismogenic versus weak and creeping faults; dynamic triggering of earthquakes; oceanic earthquakes; megathrust earthquakes in subduction zones; deep earthquakes; and new observations of earthquake precursory phenomena.read more
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The Importance of the Dynamic Source Effects on Strong Ground Motion during the 1999 Chi-Chi, Taiwan, Earthquake: Brief Interpretation of the Damage Distribution on Buildings
TL;DR: In this paper, a 2D discrete element model (DEM) was used to simulate the dynamic rupture process of the 1999 Chi-Chi, Taiwan, earthquake, and the results of the simulation showed that the ground motion near the surface rupture in the northern part caused less damage in structures than ground motion in the southern part.
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Simulating coseismic deformation of quartz in the middle crust and fabric evolution during postseismic stress relaxation — An experimental study
Claudia A. Trepmann,Bernhard Stöckhert,Dorothée Dorner,Rasoul Hamidzadeh Moghadam,Martina Küster,Klaus Röller +5 more
TL;DR: In this paper, non-steady state deformation and annealing experiments on vein quartz are designed to simulate earthquake-driven episodic deformation in the middle crust in the Quaternary Long Valley Caldera.
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Large nucleation before large earthquakes is sometimes skipped due to cascade‐up—Implications from a rate and state simulation of faults with hierarchical asperities
TL;DR: In this paper, a hierarchical asperity model in which a large tough patch (Patch L) contains smaller fragile patches (Patch S) enables a large earthquake to start with only small preparation because of cascade-up rupture growth is proposed.
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A continuum mechanics model for normal faulting using a strain-rate softening rheology: implications for thermal and rheological controls on continental and oceanic rifting
TL;DR: In this article, the authors use a strain-rate-dependent visco-plastic rheology in a finite element model to investigate the effects of crustal rheologies and thermal structure on the development of normal faults in 2D extending lithosphere.
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Deformation and hydrofracture in a subduction thrust at seismogenic depths: The Rodeo Cove thrust zone, Marin Headlands, California
TL;DR: The authors investigated the fabric and the deformational processes of an exhumed subduction zone thrust active at seismogenic depths in the Rodeo Cove thrust zone, which outcrops north of the Golden Gate Bridge of San Francisco, imbricates two basalt-chertsandstone sequences belonging to the Marin Headlands terrane.
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