After more than 100 years of earthquake research, earthquake forecasting, which relies on
knowledge of past fault rupture patterns, has become the foundation for societal defense …

Earthquakes are classified as one of the most devastating natural disasters that can have
catastrophic effects on the environment, lives, and properties. Most recent devastating …

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 …

In this study, the rockburst definition is comprehensively described and several main
rockburst theories (the strength theory, the energy theory, the bursting liability theory, the …

A numerical method to deconvolve complex body waves into a multiple shock sequence is
developed. With the assumption that all the constituent events of a multiple shock have …

Subduction thrust faults generate earthquakes over a limited depth range. They are aseismic
in their seaward updip portions and landward downdip of a critical point. The seaward …

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

The downdip width of the seismogenic zone is defined for 19 subduction zones. This width is
measured from the base of the accretionary prism to the maximum depth of nucleation of …

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 …

Subduction zones appear primarily controlled by the polarity of their direction, ie, W-directed
or E-to NNE-directed, probably due to the westward drift of the lithosphere relative to the …