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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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Influence of subduction zone conditions and gouge composition on frictional slip stability of megathrust faults
TL;DR: In this article, rotary shear friction experiments at effective normal stresses of 25-200 MPa, pore fluid pressures of 50-200MPa, at 140-600 °C and sliding velocities of 1-100 μm/s, using gouge mixtures with an illite:quartz ratio between 65:35 and zero.
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Hydrological response to earthquakes in the Haibara well, central Japan – I. Groundwater level changes revealed using state space decomposition of atmospheric pressure, rainfall and tidal responses
TL;DR: In this paper, time series analysis using state-space modeling is applied to extract hydrological anomalies related to earthquakes. But, the results show that ground motion due to earthquakes is not the major cause of the water level drops and that the contribution from static strain is rather small.
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True triaxial strength of the KTB amphibolite under borehole wall conditions and its use to estimate the maximum horizontal in situ stress
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors employed the true triaxial loading apparatus to determine the strength criterion of the nearly impermeable amphibolite penetrated by the German Continental Deep Drilling Program (KTB) superdeep scientific hole at depths of 3200-7800 m.
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Fault-zone weakening processes along the reactivated Outer Hebrides Fault Zone, Scotland
TL;DR: In this article, it was shown that the syn-tectonic alteration of a relatively strong, feldspar/hornblende-dominated load-bearing framework microstructure to an interconnected weak layer micro-structure of fine-grained, strongly aligned phyllosilicate aggregates leads to the long-term weakening in the fault zone.
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Large earthquake cycles and intermittent criticality on heterogeneous faults due to evolving stress and seismicity
TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyzed the evolution of stress and seismicity generated by three realizations of a discrete model of a strike-slip fault in a three-dimensional (3-D) elastic half space.
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