The frictional, hydrologic, metamorphic and thermal habitat of shallow slow earthquakes

DM Saffer, LM Wallace - Nature Geoscience, 2015 - nature.com
The recognition of a previously unknown spectrum of slow earthquake phenomena has
ignited one of the most dynamic fields in modern seismology and fault mechanics. These …

Geological constraints on the mechanisms of slow earthquakes

JD Kirkpatrick, Å Fagereng, DR Shelly - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2021 - nature.com
The recognition of slow earthquakes in geodetic and seismological data has transformed the
understanding of how plate motions are accommodated at major plate boundaries. Slow …

Distributed sensing of microseisms and teleseisms with submarine dark fibers

EF Williams, MR Fernández-Ruiz, R Magalhaes… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Sparse seismic instrumentation in the oceans limits our understanding of deep Earth
dynamics and submarine earthquakes. Distributed acoustic sensing (DAS), an emerging …

Slow earthquake scaling reconsidered as a boundary between distinct modes of rupture propagation

S Ide, GC Beroza - Proceedings of the National Academy of …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
The scaling law for slow earthquakes, which is a linear relationship between seismic
moment and duration, was proposed 15 y ago and initiated a debate on the difference in …

Recurring and triggered slow-slip events near the trench at the Nankai Trough subduction megathrust

E Araki, DM Saffer, AJ Kopf, LM Wallace, T Kimura… - Science, 2017 - science.org
The discovery of slow earthquakes has revolutionized the field of earthquake seismology.
Defining the locations of these events and the conditions that favor their occurrence provides …

Shallow very-low-frequency earthquakes accompany slow slip events in the Nankai subduction zone

M Nakano, T Hori, E Araki, S Kodaira, S Ide - Nature communications, 2018 - nature.com
Recent studies of slow earthquakes along plate boundaries have shown that tectonic tremor,
low-frequency earthquakes, very-low-frequency events (VLFEs), and slow-slip events …

Slip weakening as a mechanism for slow earthquakes

MJ Ikari, C Marone, DM Saffer, AJ Kopf - Nature geoscience, 2013 - nature.com
Slow slip forms part of the spectrum of fault behaviour between stable creep and destructive
earthquakes,. Slow slip occurs near the boundaries of large earthquake rupture zones, and …

Elevated pore pressure and anomalously low stress in regions of low frequency earthquakes along the Nankai Trough subduction megathrust

H Kitajima, DM Saffer - Geophysical Research Letters, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Recent seismic reflection and ocean bottom seismometer (OBS) studies reveal broad
regions of low seismic velocity along the Nankai subduction plate boundary megathrust …

Reconsidering earthquake scaling

J Gomberg, A Wech, K Creager… - Geophysical …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
The relationship (scaling) between scalar moment, M0, and duration, T, potentially provides
key constraints on the physics governing fault slip. The prevailing interpretation of M0‐T …

[HTML][HTML] Pore pressure distribution of a mega-splay fault system in the Nankai Trough subduction zone: Insight into up-dip extent of the seismogenic zone

T Tsuji, R Kamei, RG Pratt - Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 2014 - Elsevier
We use the pore pressure distribution predicted from a waveform tomography (WT) velocity
model to interpret the evolution of the mega-splay fault system in the Nankai Trough off …