Historical and recent large megathrust earthquakes in Chile

S Ruiz, R Madariaga - Tectonophysics, 2018 - Elsevier
Abstract Recent earthquakes in Chile, 2014, Mw 8.2 Iquique, 2015, Mw 8.3 Illapel and 2016,
Mw 7.6 Chiloé have put in evidence some problems with the straightforward application of …

Back-projection imaging of earthquakes

E Kiser, M Ishii - Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences, 2017 - annualreviews.org
Back-projection analysis of earthquakes is a type of array processing that images the source
of seismic waves coherently recorded at stations throughout the seismic network. The …

The break of earthquake asperities imaged by distributed acoustic sensing

J Li, T Kim, N Lapusta, E Biondi, Z Zhan - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Rupture imaging of megathrust earthquakes with global seismic arrays revealed frequency-
dependent rupture signatures,,–, but the role of high-frequency radiators remains unclear …

Depth‐varying rupture properties of subduction zone megathrust faults

T Lay, H Kanamori, CJ Ammon… - Journal of …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Subduction zone plate boundary megathrust faults accommodate relative plate motions with
spatially varying sliding behavior. The 2004 Sumatra‐Andaman (Mw 9.2), 2010 Chile (Mw …

[HTML][HTML] Subduction zone megathrust earthquakes

SL Bilek, T Lay - Geosphere, 2018 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Subduction zone megathrust faults host Earth's largest earthquakes, along with multitudes of
smaller events that contribute to plate convergence. An understanding of the faulting …

En échelon and orthogonal fault ruptures of the 11 April 2012 great intraplate earthquakes

H Yue, T Lay, KD Koper - Nature, 2012 - nature.com
Abstract The Indo-Australian plate is undergoing distributed internal deformation caused by
the lateral transition along its northern boundary—from an environment of continental …

Upper-plate rigidity determines depth-varying rupture behaviour of megathrust earthquakes

V Sallarès, CR Ranero - Nature, 2019 - nature.com
Seismological data provide evidence of a depth-dependent rupture behaviour of
earthquakes occurring at the megathrust fault of subduction zones, also known as …

Data products at the IRIS DMC: Step** stones for research and other applications

C Trabant, AR Hutko, M Bahavar… - Seismological …, 2012 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
In 2010, the Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology (IRIS) Data Management
Center (DMC) expanded the preexisting effort to generate, archive, and distribute data …

Detailed rupture imaging of the 25 April 2015 Nepal earthquake using teleseismic P waves

W Fan, PM Shearer - Geophysical Research Letters, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
We analyze the rupture process of the 25 April 2015 Nepal earthquake with globally
recorded teleseismic P waves. The rupture propagated east‐southeast from the hypocenter …

Global frequency of oceanic and continental supershear earthquakes

H Bao, L Xu, L Meng, JP Ampuero, L Gao… - Nature Geoscience, 2022 - nature.com
Earthquakes are supershear when their rupture speed is faster than that of the seismic shear
waves produced. These events are rare, but they can be highly destructive owing to the …