Cascade and pre-slip models oversimplify the complexity of earthquake preparation in nature

P Martínez-Garzón, P Poli - Communications Earth & Environment, 2024 - nature.com
Earthquake precursory processes have been central to scientific inquiry for nearly a century.
Recent advancements in earthquake monitoring, geodesy, and data analysis including …

Earthquake energy dissipation in a fracture mechanics framework

DS Kammer, GC McLaskey, RE Abercrombie… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Earthquakes are rupture-like processes that propagate along tectonic faults and cause
seismic waves. The propagation speed and final area of the rupture, which determine an …

The geophysics, geology and mechanics of slow fault slip

R Bürgmann - Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 2018 - Elsevier
Modern geodetic and seismologic observations describe the behavior of fault slip over a
vast range of spatial and temporal scales. Slip at sub-seismogenic speeds is evident from …

Impacts of rate of change in effective stress and inertial effects on fault slip behavior: new insights into injection‐induced earthquakes

Z Sun, D Elsworth, G Cui, Y Li, A Zhu… - Journal of Geophysical …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Understanding the physical mechanisms which link fluid injection with triggered
earthquakes is critical in minimizing hazard in subsurface fluid‐injection operations …

Using a physics-informed neural network and fault zone acoustic monitoring to predict lab earthquakes

P Borate, J Rivière, C Marone, A Mali, D Kifer… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Predicting failure in solids has broad applications including earthquake prediction which
remains an unattainable goal. However, recent machine learning work shows that laboratory …

Investigations and new insights on earthquake mechanics from fault slip experiments

L Dong, Q Luo - Earth-Science Reviews, 2022 - Elsevier
Earthquakes occur mainly on active faults. Fault slip is closely related to seismicity and is
thus widely discussed in Geosciences, Seismology, and Engineering. Slip experiment is a …

A laboratory perspective on accelerating preparatory processes before earthquakes and implications for foreshock detectability

THW Goebel, V Schuster, G Kwiatek, K Pandey… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Dynamic failure in the laboratory is commonly preceded by many foreshocks which
accompany premonitory aseismic slip. Aseismic slip is also thought to govern earthquake …

Similarity of fast and slow earthquakes illuminated by machine learning

C Hulbert, B Rouet-Leduc, PA Johnson, CX Ren… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Tectonic faults fail in a spectrum of modes, ranging from earthquakes to slow slip events.
The physics of fast earthquakes are well described by stick–slip friction and elastodynamic …

Deep learning for laboratory earthquake prediction and autoregressive forecasting of fault zone stress

L Laurenti, E Tinti, F Galasso, L Franco… - Earth and Planetary …, 2022 - Elsevier
Earthquake forecasting and prediction have long and in some cases sordid histories but
recent work has rekindled interest based on advances in early warning, hazard assessment …

Episodic stress and fluid pressure cycling in subducting oceanic crust during slow slip

E Warren-Smith, B Fry, L Wallace, E Chon… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Slow slip events are part of a spectrum of aseismic processes that relieve tectonic stress on
faults. Their spatial distribution in subduction zones has been linked to perturbations in fluid …