An 8 month slow slip event triggers progressive nucleation of the 2014 Chile megathrust

A Socquet, JP Valdes, J Jara, F Cotton… - Geophysical …, 2017‏ - Wiley Online Library
The mechanisms leading to large earthquakes are poorly understood and documented.
Here we characterize the long‐term precursory phase of the 1 April 2014 Mw8. 1 North Chile …

Multiple slow‐slip events during a foreshock sequence of the 2014 Iquique, Chile Mw 8.1 earthquake

A Kato, S Nakagawa - Geophysical Research Letters, 2014‏ - Wiley Online Library
To obtain a precise record of the foreshock sequence before the 2014 Iquique, Chile Mw 8.1
earthquake, we applied a matched filter technique to continuous seismograms recorded …

Acoustic emission and microslip precursors to stick‐slip failure in sheared granular material

PA Johnson, B Ferdowsi, BM Kaproth… - Geophysical …, 2013‏ - Wiley Online Library
We investigate the physics of laboratory earthquake precursors in a biaxial shear
configuration. We conduct laboratory experiments at room temperature and humidity in …

Cree** faults: Good news, bad news?

KH Chen, R Bürgmann - Reviews of Geophysics, 2017‏ - Wiley Online Library
The motion of the Earth's tectonic plates drive fault slip. Some faults slip in sudden
movements, releasing great amounts of energy during large earthquake ruptures, while …

Nucleation and evolution of sliding in continental fault zones under the action of natural and man-made factors: A state-of-the-art review

GG Kocharyan - Izvestiya, Physics of the Solid Earth, 2021‏ - Springer
A review is presented of the state-of-the-art publications concerning the nucleation and
evolution of fault slip in the Earth's crust. The review covers various aspects of the problem …

The preparatory phase of the 2009 Mw 6.3 L'Aquila earthquake by improving the detection capability of low‐magnitude foreshocks

M Sugan, A Kato, H Miyake… - Geophysical …, 2014‏ - Wiley Online Library
We explored the detection capability of low‐magnitude earthquakes before the 6 April 2009
Mw 6.3 L'Aquila event by using a matched filter technique and 512 foreshocks as templates …

Imaging widespread seismicity at midlower crustal depths beneath Long Beach, CA, with a dense seismic array: Evidence for a depth‐dependent earthquake size …

A Inbal, RW Clayton, JP Ampuero - Geophysical Research …, 2015‏ - Wiley Online Library
We use a dense seismic array composed of 5200 vertical geophones to monitor
microseismicity in Long Beach, California. Poor signal‐to‐noise ratio due to anthropogenic …

The implications of fault zone transformation on aseismic creep: Example of the North Anatolian Fault, Turkey

M Kaduri, JP Gratier, F Renard, Z Çakir… - … Research: Solid Earth, 2017‏ - Wiley Online Library
Aseismic creep is observed at surface along several segments of the North Anatolian right‐
lateral active fault in Turkey, a major plate boundary between Eurasia and Anatolia …

Detection of earthquake swarms at subduction zones globally: Insights into tectonic controls on swarm activity

T Nishikawa, S Ide - Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid …, 2017‏ - Wiley Online Library
Earthquake swarms are characterized by an increase in seismicity rate that lacks a
distinguished main shock and does not obey Omori's law. At subduction zones, they are …

Comparing foreshock characteristics and foreshock forecasting in observed and simulated earthquake catalogs

Y Ogata, K Katsura - Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid …, 2014‏ - Wiley Online Library
In this paper, we compare the empirical results regarding foreshocks obtained from the
Japan data with results for synthetic catalogs in order to clarify whether or not the …