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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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Seismicity and plate deformation below the Andaman arc, northeastern Indian Ocean
TL;DR: In this paper, stress distribution and faulting due to earthquakes below the Andaman-West Sunda arc are studied using 68 focal mechanism solutions, and the most significant results are: low-angle thrust events occur along the upper edge of the descending Indian plate, downdip tensional events have steeply dipping ( ⩾ 60°) nodal planes, and normal faulting takes place in most parts of the Benioff zone along moderately dipping (30-45°) planes.
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Mode of Strong Earthquake Recurrence in the Central Ionian Islands (Greece): Possible Triggering due to Coulomb Stress Changes Generated by the Occurrence of Previous Strong Shocks
TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyzed the spatiotemporal distribution of shallow strong (M 6.3) earthquakes occurring in the area of central Ionian Islands and investigated how changes in Coulomb failure function (DCFF) asso-ciated with one or more earthquakes may trigger subsequent events.
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3D dynamic simulations of spontaneous rupture propagation governed by different constitutive laws with rake rotation allowed
Andrea Bizzarri,Massimo Cocco +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a 3D finite difference numerical method to model the dynamic spontaneous propagation of an earthquake rupture on planar faults in an elastic half-space, which allows the use of oblique and heterogeneous distribution of initial stress and allows the rake rotation.
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Shallow intraplate earthquakes in Western Australia observed by Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar
TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated two intraplate earthquakes in a stable continental region of southwest Western Australia using satellite Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (InSAR) data and demonstrated the capability of the technique to provide important constraints on small magnitude coseismic events.
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Permeability of continental crust influenced by internal and external forcing
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