A growing body of observations worldwide has documented fault slip transients that radiate
little or no seismic energy. The mechanisms that govern these slow slip events (SSEs) and …

In the engineering related to seismic activities, such as shale gas extraction and EGS
system, numerical simulation is a common research method. In current numerical …

Fault zones are usually composed of a granular gouge, coming from the wear material of
previous slips, which contributes to friction stability. When considering a mature enough fault …

When an external force is suddenly applied to the material interface, how much the critical
force is required for the onset of slip? To answer this, we used molecular simulations to …

Frictional forces are a key ingredient of any physical description of the macroscopic world,
as they account for the phenomena causing transformation of mechanical energy into heat …

The failure law prescribed along the fault surface and the elastic stiffness of the surrounding
medium play important roles in determining the characteristics of earthquakes. Here we use …

Slow slip events are often accompanied by tremor but how tremor is generated is yet
elusive. In this study, we test the possibility that it is an inertial vibration. In the case of a …

The dynamic disturbance is one of the major reasons to trigger rock block sliding along the
discontinuities of roof rock mass during the mining excavation. A self-developed test …

An important technical issue in the enhanced geothermal system (EGS) is the process of
fracture shear and dilation, fracture network propagation and induced seismicity. EGS …

Tremor signals are weak and emergent, and the physics governing their generation is not
well understood. Here, I report on tremor occurring along the Dead Sea Transform (DST) …