We analyzed a catalog of 31 published earthquake chronologies to assess the commonality
of quasiperiodic earthquake recurrence across a range of fault types and tectonic settings …

Long records often show large earthquakes occurring in supercycles, sequences of
temporal clusters of seismicity, cumulative displacement, and cumulative strain release …

Assessment of a region's seismic hazard requires knowledge of the repeat times and the
regularity of earthquake recurrence. For most areas, the earthquake catalog is too short to …

In this study we examine the nature of earthquake recurrence through the analysis of
multiple cycles of faulting repetitive movement of the same part of the fault plane in a variety …

Elastic rebound theory forms the basis of the standard earthquake cycle model and predicts
large earthquakes to recur regularly through cycles of strain accumulation and release. Yet …

Our understanding of the frequency of large earthquakes at timescales longer than
instrumental and historical records is based mostly on paleoseismic studies of fast-moving …

It has been 153 yr since the last large earthquake on the southern San Andreas fault
(California, United States), but the average interseismic interval is only∼ 100 yr. If the …

The macroscopic behaviour of a fault zone can be described by a classic Coulomb friction
law and static-kinetic rheology. The critical failure stress leading to the activation of a single …

Abstract Knowledge of what governs the timing of earthquakes is essential to understanding
the nature of the earthquake cycle and to determining earthquake hazard, yet the variability …

A long paleoseismic record at Hog Lake on the central San Jacinto fault in southern
California documents evidence for 18 surface ruptures in the past 3.8-4 ka. This yields a …