On February 6, 2023, two large earthquakes occurred near the Turkish town of
Kahramanmaraş. The moment magnitude (Mw) 7.8 mainshock ruptured a 310 km-long …

The observational difficulties and the complexity of earthquake physics have rendered
seismic hazard assessment largely empirical. Despite increasingly high-quality geodetic …

Earthquakes vary in size over many orders of magnitude, often rupturing in complex
multifault and multievent sequences. Despite the large number of observed earthquakes, the …

Fault stepovers are prime examples of geometric complexity in natural fault zones that may
affect seismic hazard by determining whether an earthquake rupture continues propagating …

The evolution of frictional resistance on a fault affects the characteristics of seismic ruptures.
A wide range of rupture styles, from slow-slip events to fast earthquakes, can be explained …

Dynamic rupture models are physics‐based simulations that couple fracture mechanics to
wave propagation and are used to explain specific earthquake observations or to generate a …

A sequence of two major earthquakes, Mw 7.8 Pazarcik, and Mw 7.5 Elbistan, struck
Southeastern Turkey in February 2023. The large magnitudes of the earthquakes and the …

Multicycle earthquake rupture simulators generate long sequences of earthquakes along
predefined fault geometries for statistical analysis of earthquake recurrence and related …

We present an earthquake simulator, Quake‐DFN, which allows simulating sequences of
earthquakes in a 3D discrete fault network governed by rate and state friction. The simulator …

Abstract The East Anatolian fault in Turkey exhibits along-strike rupture segmentation,
typically resulting in earthquakes with moment magnitude (Mw) up to 7.5 that are confined to …