Invited review paper: Fault creep caused by subduction of rough seafloor relief

K Wang, SL Bilek - Tectonophysics, 2014 - Elsevier
Among the wide range of thermal, petrologic, hydrological, and structural factors that
potentially affect subduction earthquakes, the roughness of the subducting seafloor is …

Segmentation and supercycles: A catalog of earthquake rupture patterns from the Sumatran Sunda Megathrust and other well-studied faults worldwide

B Philibosian, AJ Meltzner - Quaternary Science Reviews, 2020 - Elsevier
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 …

Interseismic coupling, segmentation and mechanical behavior of the central Chile subduction zone

M Métois, A Socquet, C Vigny - Journal of Geophysical …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Global Positioning System (GPS) measurements carried out in Chile over the last two
decades showed that an entire portion of the Nazca‐South America subduction zone (38° …

Crustal seismic imaging from multifold ocean bottom seismometer data by frequency domain full waveform tomography: Application to the eastern Nankai trough

S Operto, J Virieux, JX Dessa… - Journal of Geophysical …, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
In offshore surveys, the deep crust is generally investigated by traveltime tomography
applied to sparse ocean bottom seismometer data. The inferred velocity models are of …

Weak Interplate Coupling by Seamounts and Repeating M ~ 7 Earthquakes

K Mochizuki, T Yamada, M Shinohara, Y Yamanaka… - Science, 2008 - science.org
Subducting seamounts are thought to increase the normal stress between subducting and
overriding plates. However, recent seismic surveys and laboratory experiments suggest that …

The slip distribution of the 1946 Nankai earthquake estimated from tsunami inversion using a new plate model

T Baba, Y Tanioka, PR Cummins, K Uhira - Physics of the Earth and …, 2002 - Elsevier
A new model for the shape of the Philippine Sea Plate (PSP) subducting beneath southwest
Japan was constructed by combining marine seismic survey results and seismicity data. This …

Are rupture zone limits of great subduction earthquakes controlled by upper plate structures? Evidence from multichannel seismic reflection data acquired across the …

JY Collot, B Marcaillou, F Sage… - Journal of …, 2004 - Wiley Online Library
Subduction of the Nazca plate beneath the Ecuador‐Colombia margin has produced four
megathrust earthquakes during the last century. The 500‐km‐long rupture zone of the 1906 …

Seamount subduction erosion in the Nankai Trough and its potential impact on the seismogenic zone

NLB Bangs, SPS Gulick, TH Shipley - Geology, 2006 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Seamount subduction along subduction-zone plate boundary thrusts has long been
implicated as a mechanism for abrasion and tectonic erosion of the base of the overriding …

Invited review paper: Seismicity along the South American subduction zone: Review of large earthquakes, tsunamis, and subduction zone complexity

SL Bilek - Tectonophysics, 2010 - Elsevier
Earthquakes along the shallow South American subduction zone exhibit heterogeneous
rupture characteristics, going back several centuries of the earthquake record in this area …

Subducted oceanic relief locks the shallow megathrust in central Ecuador

JY Collot, E Sanclemente, JM Nocquet… - Journal of …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Whether subducted oceanic reliefs such as seamounts promote seismic rupture or aseismic
slip remains controversial. Here we use swath bathymetry, prestack depth‐migrated …