A review of the rupture characteristics of the 2011 Tohoku-oki Mw 9.1 earthquake

T Lay - Tectonophysics, 2018‏ - Elsevier
Abstract The 2011 March 11 Tohoku-oki great (Mw 9.1) earthquake ruptured the plate
boundary megathrust fault offshore of northern Honshu with estimates of shallow slip of 50 m …

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 …

Lower edge of locked Main Himalayan Thrust unzipped by the 2015 Gorkha earthquake

JP Avouac, L Meng, S Wei, T Wang, JP Ampuero - Nature Geoscience, 2015‏ - nature.com
Large earthquakes are thought to release strain on previously locked faults. However, the
details of how earthquakes are initiated, grow and terminate in relation to pre-seismically …

Earthquake in a Maze: Compressional Rupture Branching During the 2012 Mw 8.6 Sumatra Earthquake

L Meng, JP Ampuero, J Stock, Z Duputel, Y Luo… - science, 2012‏ - science.org
Seismological observations of the 2012 moment magnitude 8.6 Sumatra earthquake reveal
unprecedented complexity of dynamic rupture. The surprisingly large magnitude results from …

Source mechanism and rupture process of the 24 January 2020 Mw 6.7 Doğanyol–Sivrice earthquake obtained from seismological waveform analysis and space …

T Taymaz, A Ganas, S Yolsal-Çevikbilen, F Vera… - Tectonophysics, 2021‏ - Elsevier
Here, we present the source mechanism and rupture process for the destructive 24 January
2020 Mw 6.7 Doğanyol–Sivrice earthquake at the East Anatolian Fault Zone (EAFZ, Turkey) …

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 …

Citizen seismology helps decipher the 2021 Haiti earthquake

E Calais, S Symithe, T Monfret, B Delouis, A Lomax… - Science, 2022‏ - science.org
On 14 August 2021, the moment magnitude (M w) 7.2 Nippes earthquake in Haiti occurred
within the same fault zone as its devastating 2010 M w 7.0 predecessor, but struck the …

Transpressional Rupture Cascade of the 2016 Mw 7.8 Kaikoura Earthquake, New Zealand

W Xu, G Feng, L Meng, A Zhang… - Journal of …, 2018‏ - Wiley Online Library
Large earthquakes often do not occur on a simple planar fault but involve rupture of multiple
geometrically complex faults. The 2016 Mw 7.8 Kaikoura earthquake, New Zealand …

Dual megathrust slip behaviors of the 2014 Iquique earthquake sequence

L Meng, H Huang, R Bürgmann, JP Ampuero… - Earth and Planetary …, 2015‏ - Elsevier
The transition between seismic rupture and aseismic creep is of central interest to better
understand the mechanics of subduction processes. A Mw 8.2 earthquake occurred on April …

Imaging the 2016 Mw 7.8 Kaikoura, New Zealand, earthquake with teleseismic P waves: A cascading rupture across multiple faults

H Zhang, KD Koper, K Pankow… - Geophysical Research …, 2017‏ - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The 13 November 2016 Mw 7.8 Kaikoura, New Zealand, earthquake was
investigated using teleseismic P waves. Backprojection of high‐frequency P waves from two …