Slip distribution of the February 6, 2023 Mw 7.8 and Mw 7.6, Kahramanmaraş, Turkey earthquake sequence in the East Anatolian fault zone

S Barbot, H Luo, T Wang, Y Hamiel, O Piatibratova… - Seismica, 2023 - par.nsf.gov
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 …

Dynamics, interactions and delays of the 2019 Ridgecrest rupture sequence

T Taufiqurrahman, AA Gabriel, D Li, T Ulrich, B Li… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
The observational difficulties and the complexity of earthquake physics have rendered
seismic hazard assessment largely empirical. Despite increasingly high-quality geodetic …

Diffuse deformation and surface faulting distribution from submetric image correlation along the 2019 Ridgecrest, California, ruptures

SL Antoine, Y Klinger, A Delorme… - Bulletin of the …, 2021 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
ABSTRACT The 2019 M w 6.4 and 7.1 Ridgecrest, California, earthquake sequence (July
2019) ruptured consecutively a system of high‐angle strike‐slip cross faults (northeast‐and …

Constitutive behavior of rocks during the seismic cycle

S Barbot - AGU Advances, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Establishing a constitutive law for fault friction is a crucial objective of earthquake science.
However, the complex frictional behavior of natural and synthetic gouges in laboratory …

Migrating Foreshocks Driven by a Slow Slip Event Before the 2021 MW 6.1 Yangbi, China Earthquake

K Wang, Z Peng, S Liang, J Luo… - Journal of Geophysical …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Foreshocks are known to occur before certain large earthquakes, but the physical
mechanism is still in debate. Recent field and laboratory studies have supported either …

Imaging the garlock fault zone with a fiber: a limited damage zone and hidden bimaterial contrast

J Atterholt, Z Zhan, Y Yang… - Journal of Geophysical …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The structure of fault zones and the ruptures they host are inextricably linked. Fault zones
are narrow, which has made imaging their structure at seismogenic depths a persistent …

Mantle flow distribution beneath the California margin

S Barbot - Nature Communications, 2020 - nature.com
Although the surface deformation of tectonic plate boundaries is well determined by
geological and geodetic measurements, the pattern of flow below the lithosphere remains …

A two-step inversion for fault frictional properties using a temporally varying afterslip model and its application to the 2019 Ridgecrest earthquake

Z Zhao, H Yue - Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 2023 - Elsevier
The stress status and frictional parameters of a fault system control its slip behaviors over
earthquake cycles. These parameters generally exhibit large spatial variations in a real fault …

Coseismic and early post-seismic deformations due to the 2019 earthquake sequence in Ridgecrest, California

K He, C Xu, Y Wen - Geophysical Journal International, 2022 - academic.oup.com
The 2019 Ridgecrest earthquake sequence in the Mojave Desert that ruptured a complex
orthogonal conjugate fault system offers a rare opportunity to probe the mechanics of the …

Mechanism of the 2017 Mw 6.3 Pasni earthquake and its significance for future major earthquakes in the eastern Makran

X Yang, Q Qiu, W Feng, J Lin, J Zhang… - Geophysical Journal …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Makran subduction zone is very active with∼ 38 mm yr− 1 convergence rate and has
experienced great earthquakes in the past. The latest great earthquake of 1945 M w 8.1 …