▪ Abstract This paper reviews rock friction and the frictional properties of earthquake faults.
The basis for rate-and state-dependent friction laws is reviewed. The friction state variable is …

Earthquake prediction research has been conducted for over 100 years with no obvious
successes. Claims of breakthroughs have failed to withstand scrutiny. Extensive searches …

This essential reference for graduate students and researchers provides a unified treatment
of earthquakes and faulting as two aspects of brittle tectonics at different timescales. The …

Publisher Summary This chapter summarizes the new facts surrounding the spatial
variability of the b-value—the slope of the frequency-magnitude distribution (FMD) …

Abstract The 1992 magnitude 7.3 Landers earthquake triggered an exceptional number of
additional earthquakes within California and as far north as Yellowstone and Montana …

Stress shadows generated by California's two most recent great earthquakes (1857 Fort
Tejon and 1906 San Francisco) substantially modified 19th and 20th century earthquake …

We present a new three‐dimensional inventory of the southern San Francisco Bay area
faults and use it to calculate stress applied principally by the 1989 M= 7.1 Loma Prieta …

Quantitative estimates of the crack density (ϵ), saturation rate (ξ) and porosity (ψ)
parameters from seismic velocities (Vp, Vs) and Poisson's ratio (σ) in the 2001 Bhuj …

We report on numerical simulations of slip evolution along a two dimensional (slip varies
only with depth) vertical strike‐slip fault in an elastic half‐space, using a framework …

A high‐resolution tomographic model of the upper mantle beneath the North China Craton
(NCC) is determined using a large number of precisely hand‐picked teleseismic P wave …