Large seismogenic faults consist of approximately meter-thick fault cores surrounded by
hundreds-of-meters-thick damage zones. Earthquakes are generated by rupture …

Earthquakes are rupture-like processes that propagate along tectonic faults and cause
seismic waves. The propagation speed and final area of the rupture, which determine an …

We conducted fluid injection experiments on cylindrical low‐permeability granite samples
with a critically stressed sawcut fault at local injection rates of 0.2 and 0.8 mL/min and …

Aseismic slip may occur during a long preparatory phase preceding earthquakes, and what
controls it remains poorly understood. In this study, we explored the role of load point …

Catastrophic failure in brittle, porous materials initiates when smaller-scale fractures localise
along an emergent fault zone in a transition from stable crack growth to dynamic rupture …

Earthquakes vary in size over many orders of magnitude, often rupturing in complex
multifault and multievent sequences. Despite the large number of observed earthquakes, the …

Earthquake-like ruptures break the contacts that form the frictional interface separating
contacting bodies and mediate the onset of frictional motion (stick-slip). The slip (motion) of …

Fluid injection stimulates seismicity far from active tectonic regions. However, the details of
how fluids modify on‐fault stresses and initiate seismic events remain poorly understood …

We investigate the propagation of fluid-driven fault slip on a slip-weakening frictional
interface separating two identical half-spaces of a three-dimensional elastic solid. Our focus …

We review properties and processes of earthquake rupture zones based on field studies,
laboratory observations, theoretical models and simulations, with the goal of assessing the …