The role of space-based observation in understanding and responding to active tectonics and earthquakes

JR Elliott, RJ Walters, TJ Wright - Nature communications, 2016 - nature.com
The quantity and quality of satellite-geodetic measurements of tectonic deformation have
increased dramatically over the past two decades improving our ability to observe active …

Recent advances in imaging crustal fault zones: A review

H Yang - Earthquake Science, 2015 - Springer
Crustal faults usually have a fault core and surrounding regions of brittle damage, forming a
low-velocity zone (LVZ) in the immediate vicinity of the main slip interface. The LVZ may …

Quantifying near‐field and off‐fault deformation patterns of the 1992 Mw 7.3 Landers earthquake

CWD Milliner, JF Dolan, J Hollingsworth… - Geochemistry …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Coseismic surface deformation in large earthquakes is typically measured using field
map** and with a range of geodetic methods (eg, InSAR, lidar differencing, and GPS) …

[HTML][HTML] How well do surface slip measurements track slip at depth in large strike-slip earthquakes? The importance of fault structural maturity in controlling on-fault …

JF Dolan, BD Haravitch - Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 2014 - Elsevier
Comparisons of observed surface displacements with geodetically inferred slip at depth in
six large (M w⩾ 7.1) strike-slip earthquakes reveal a correlation between the structural …

Mitigation of atmospheric phase delays in InSAR data, with application to the eastern California shear zone

E Tymofyeyeva, Y Fialko - Journal of Geophysical Research …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
We present a method for estimating radar phase delays due to propagation through the
troposphere and the ionosphere based on the averaging of redundant interferograms that …

Abundant off-fault seismicity and orthogonal structures in the San Jacinto fault zone

ZE Ross, E Hauksson, Y Ben-Zion - Science advances, 2017 - science.org
The trifurcation area of the San Jacinto fault zone has produced more than 10% of all
earthquakes in southern California since 2000, including the June 2016 M w (moment …

Application of an improved spectral decomposition method to examine earthquake source scaling in Southern California

DT Trugman, PM Shearer - Journal of Geophysical Research …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Earthquake source spectra contain fundamental information about the dynamics of
earthquake rupture. However, the inherent tradeoffs in separating source and path effects …

Effects of low‐velocity fault damage zones on long‐term earthquake behaviors on mature strike‐slip faults

P Thakur, Y Huang, Y Kaneko - Journal of Geophysical …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Mature strike‐slip faults are usually surrounded by a narrow zone of damaged rocks
characterized by low seismic wave velocities. Observations of earthquakes along such faults …

Major southern San Andreas earthquakes modulated by lake-filling events

RG Hill, M Weingarten, TK Rockwell, Y Fialko - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Hydrologic loads can stimulate seismicity in the Earth's crust. However, evidence for the
triggering of large earthquakes remains elusive. The southern San Andreas Fault (SSAF) in …

Slow Slip Event On the Southern San Andreas Fault Triggered by the 2017 Mw8.2 Chiapas (Mexico) Earthquake

E Tymofyeyeva, Y Fialko, J Jiang, X Xu… - Journal of …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Observations of shallow fault creep reveal increasingly complex time‐dependent slip
histories that include quasi‐steady creep and triggered as well as spontaneous accelerated …