Are Foreshocks Fore-shocks?
Earthquakes are mechanical instabilities in the brittle lithosphere produced by the progressive accumulation of stress in the crust over centuries. The more extended the fractures, …
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Earthquakes are mechanical instabilities in the brittle lithosphere produced by the progressive accumulation of stress in the crust over centuries. The more extended the fractures, …
Read full textIn the brittle regime, faults tend to be oriented along an angle of about 30 relative to the principal stress direction. This empirical Andersonian observation …
Read full textThe Anatolian region is one of the most seismically active tectonic settings in the world.Here, we perform a clustering analysis of Turkish seismicity using an …
Read full textClustering is the essence of earthquake occurrence. Although not exhaustive, our analysis is a first attempt to understand what information may be hidden in partial, …
Read full textWe analysed the earthquake double-couple as a function of the faulting type. Here we show that it impacts the moment tensors of earthquakes: thrust-faulting events are characterized by higher double-couple components with respect to strike-slip- and normal-faulting earthquakes.
Read full textFaults become more and more responsive to stress perturbations as instability mounts. We utilize this property in order to identify the different phases of the seismic cycle.
Read full textIn this work, a model for describing the size-frequency scaling and the temporal evolution of seismicity is proposed starting from simple assumptions. The parameter describing how the number of earthquakes decreases after a major seismic event, p, turns out to be positively correlated to the exponent of the frequency-size distribution of seismicity, b, and related to tectonics.
Read full textAssessing the stability state of fault interfaces is a task of primary interest not only for seismic hazard, but also for understanding how the earthquake machine works
Read full textThe processes occurring on the Earth are controlled by several gradients. The surface of the Planet is featured by complex geological patterns produced by both …
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