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 …

We compile a worldwide catalog of shallow (depth< 70 km) and large (Ms≥ 7) earthquakes
recorded between 1900 and 1989. The catalog is shown to be complete and uniform at the …

The variation in maximum rupture extent of large shallow earthquakes in circum‐Pacific
subduction zones is interpreted in the context of the asperity model of stress distribution on …

Two large earthquakes (an earthquake doublet) occurred in south-central Turkey on
February 6, 2023, causing massive damages and casualties. The magnitudes and the …

Various seismicity patterns before major earthquakes have been reported in the literature.
They include foreshocks (broad sense), preseismic quiescence, precursory swarms, and …

A devastating doublet of earthquakes with moment magnitude MW 7.9 and MW 7.6
earthquakes contiguously occurred in SE Türkiye near the NW border of Syria. Here we …

In an attempt to examine the characteristic behavior of asperities, we studied the source
processes of large interplate earthquakes offshore of the Tohoku district, northeastern …

We demonstrate that the statistics of earthquake data in the global Centroid Moment Tensor
(CMT) and National Earthquake Information Center (NEIC) catalogs and local California …

Regional variations in the rupture characteristics of large shallow earthquakes in circum-
Pacific subduction zones are interpreted in the context of the asperity model of …

Using the concepts of fracture mechanics, we develop a theory of the earthquake
mechanism which includes the phenomenon of subcritical crack growth. The theory …