Fracture energy and breakdown work during earthquakes

M Cocco, S Aretusini, C Cornelio… - Annual Review of …, 2023 - annualreviews.org
Large seismogenic faults consist of approximately meter-thick fault cores surrounded by
hundreds-of-meters-thick damage zones. Earthquakes are generated by rupture …

Inferring earthquake physics and chemistry using an integrated field and laboratory approach

A Niemeijer, G Di Toro, WA Griffith, A Bistacchi… - Journal of Structural …, 2012 - Elsevier
Earthquakes are the result of a combination of (1) physico-chemical processes operating in
fault zones, which allow ruptures to nucleate and rock friction to decrease with increasing …

[BOOK][B] The finite-difference modelling of earthquake motions: Waves and ruptures

P Moczo, J Kristek, M Gális - 2014 - books.google.com
Among all the numerical methods in seismology, the finite-difference (FD) technique
provides the best balance of accuracy and computational efficiency. This book offers a …

Dynamic viability of the 2016 Mw 7.8 Kaikōura earthquake cascade on weak crustal faults

T Ulrich, AA Gabriel, JP Ampuero, W Xu - Nature communications, 2019 - nature.com
We present a dynamic rupture model of the 2016 Mw 7.8 Kaikōura earthquake to unravel the
event's riddles in a physics-based manner and provide insight on the mechanical viability of …

Dynamics, radiation, and overall energy budget of earthquake rupture with coseismic off‐fault damage

K Okubo, HS Bhat, E Rougier, S Marty… - Journal of …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Earthquake ruptures dynamically activate coseismic off‐fault damage around fault cores.
Systematic field observation efforts have shown the distribution of off‐fault damage around …

Dynamics, interactions and delays of the 2019 Ridgecrest rupture sequence

T Taufiqurrahman, AA Gabriel, D Li, T Ulrich, B Li… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
The observational difficulties and the complexity of earthquake physics have rendered
seismic hazard assessment largely empirical. Despite increasingly high-quality geodetic …

Coupled, physics-based modeling reveals earthquake displacements are critical to the 2018 Palu, Sulawesi tsunami

T Ulrich, S Vater, EH Madden, J Behrens… - Pure and Applied …, 2019 - Springer
Abstract The September 2018, M_w M w 7.5 Sulawesi earthquake occurring on the Palu-
Koro strike-slip fault system was followed by an unexpected localized tsunami. We show that …

Rupture dynamics and ground motion from 3‐D rough‐fault simulations

Z Shi, SM Day - Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract We perform three‐dimensional (3‐D) numerical calculations of dynamic rupture
along non‐planar faults to study the effects of fault roughness on rupture propagation and …

Earthquake ruptures with strongly rate-weakening friction and off-fault plasticity, part 2: Nonplanar faults

EM Dunham, D Belanger, L Cong… - Bulletin of the …, 2011 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Observations demonstrate that faults are fractal surfaces with deviations from planarity at all
scales. We study dynamic rupture propagation on self-similar faults having root mean …

Community‐driven code comparisons for three‐dimensional dynamic modeling of sequences of earthquakes and aseismic slip

J Jiang, BA Erickson, VR Lambert… - Journal of …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Dynamic modeling of sequences of earthquakes and aseismic slip (SEAS) provides a self‐
consistent, physics‐based framework to connect, interpret, and predict diverse geophysical …