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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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Dynamic stress variations due to shear faults in a plane-layered medium
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TL;DR: In this paper, a complete set of expressions for the computation of elastic dynamic stress in plane-layered media is presented for both the observational and theoretical analysis of dynamic stress changes associated with earthquake phenomena.
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Accelerated seismic release and related aspects of seismicity patterns on earthquake Faults
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors show that large earthquakes are sometimes preceded by phases of accelerated seismic release (ASR) characterized by cumulative Benioff strain following a power law timeto-failure relation with a term (tf - t)m, where tr is the failure time of the large event and observed values of m are close to 0.3.
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Geometric and rheological asperities in an exposed fault zone
Amir Sagy,Emily E. Brodsky +1 more
TL;DR: This article investigated the interplay of bulk deformation and surface topography using detailed structural analysis of a fault zone near Klamath Falls, Oregon, combined with LiDAR measurements of the fault surface.
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Layered Seismogenic Source Model and Probabilistic Seismic-Hazard Analyses in Central Italy
TL;DR: In this article, the authors defined a seismogenic model for central Italy based on three layers of sources and computed the relative seismic-hazard maps, where one layer is constituted by individual structures liable to generate major earthquakes (M 5.5).
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Earthquakes as multiscale dynamic ruptures with heterogeneous fracture surface energy
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TL;DR: In this paper, a model of the wide-scale growth of dynamic rupture during an earthquake is proposed based on multiscale simulation of a planar crack in a three-dimensional homogeneous elastic space.
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