This paper reviews laboratory observations of earthquake initiation and describes new
experiments on a 3‐m rock sample where the nucleation process is imaged in detail. Many …

There is striking evidence that the dynamics of the Earth crust is controlled by a wide variety
of mutually dependent mechanisms acting at different spatial and temporal scales. The …

本文利用云南区域地震台网提供的震相报告, 采用" 多阶段定位" 方法, 对2021 年5 月21
日云南漾濞MS 6.4 地震序列的震源位置进行了重新定位. 选取序列中13 次具有高信噪比宽频带 …

The existence of an observable precursory phase of slip on the fault before large
earthquakes has been debated for decades. Although observations preceding several large …

Many large earthquakes are preceded by one or more foreshocks, but it is unclear how
these foreshocks relate to the nucleation process of the mainshock. On the basis of an …

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 …

Foreshocks are not uncommon prior to large earthquakes, but their physical mechanism
remains controversial. Two interpretations have been advanced:(1) foreshocks are driven by …

In this paper, we relocated the MS 6.4 Yangbi earthquake sequence in Yunnan province by
the" multi-stage" method and the phase arrival data from the Yunnan regional seismic …

Earthquake prediction, the long-sought holy grail of earthquake science, continues to
confound Earth scientists. Could we make advances by crowdsourcing, drawing from the …

Much of what we know about the nucleation of earthquakes comes from the temporal and
spatial relationship of foreshocks to the initiation point (hypocentre) of the mainshock. The …