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 …

Slow slip events in New Zealand

LM Wallace - Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences, 2020 - annualreviews.org
Continuously operating global positioning system sites in the North Island of New Zealand
have revealed a diverse range of slow motion earthquakes on the Hikurangi subduction …

Slow slip near the trench at the Hikurangi subduction zone, New Zealand

LM Wallace, SC Webb, Y Ito, K Mochizuki, R Hino… - Science, 2016 - science.org
The range of fault slip behaviors near the trench at subduction plate boundaries is critical to
know, as this is where the world's largest, most damaging tsunamis are generated. Our …

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 …

Earthquake and tsunami forecasts: Relation of slow slip events to subsequent earthquake rupture

TH Dixon, Y Jiang, R Malservisi… - Proceedings of the …, 2014 - National Acad Sciences
The 5 September 2012 Mw 7.6 earthquake on the Costa Rica subduction plate boundary
followed a 62-y interseismic period. High-precision GPS recorded numerous slow slip …

The occurrence and hazards of great subduction zone earthquakes

EA Wirth, VJ Sahakian, LM Wallace… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2022 - nature.com
Subduction zone earthquakes result in some of the most devastating natural hazards on
Earth. Knowledge of where great (moment magnitude M≥ 8) subduction zone earthquakes …

Near‐field observations of an offshore Mw 6.0 earthquake from an integrated seafloor and subseafloor monitoring network at the Nankai Trough, southwest Japan

LM Wallace, E Araki, D Saffer, X Wang… - Journal of …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract An Mw 6.0 earthquake struck~ 50 km offshore the Kii Peninsula of southwest
Honshu, Japan on 1 April 2016. This earthquake occurred directly beneath a cabled …

Is complex fault zone behaviour a reflection of rheological heterogeneity?

Å Fagereng, A Beall - Philosophical Transactions of the …, 2021 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Fault slip speeds range from steady plate boundary creep through to earthquake slip.
Geological descriptions of faults range from localized displacement on one or more discrete …

Megathrust reflectivity reveals the updip limit of the 2014 Iquique earthquake rupture

B Ma, J Geersen, D Lange, D Klaeschen… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
The updip limit of seismic rupture during a megathrust earthquake exerts a major control on
the size of the resulting tsunami. Offshore Northern Chile, the 2014 Mw 8.1 Iquique …

[HTML][HTML] Mixed deformation styles observed on a shallow subduction thrust, Hikurangi margin, New Zealand

Å Fagereng, HM Savage, JK Morgan, M Wang… - …, 2019 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Geophysical observations show spatial and temporal variations in fault slip style on shallow
subduction thrust faults, but geological signatures and underlying deformation processes …