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Subject(s)

• Faults (Geology)—Congresses [Browse]

Editor

• Bizzarri, Andrea [Browse]
• Das, Shamita [Browse]
• Petri, A. (Alberto) [Browse]

Series

• International School of Physics "Enrico Fermi." Proceedings of the International School of Physics "Enrico Fermi" ; Course 202. [More in this series]
• Proceedings of the International School of Physics "Enrico Fermi" ; Course 202

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Contents

• Intro
• Title Page
• Contents
• Preface
• Course group shot
• The mechanics of supershear earthquake ruptures
• 1. Introduction
• 2. Physical problem
• 3. Numerical solutions
• 4. Frequency content
• 5. The penetration of the forbidden zone
• 6. The shear-Mach and the Rayleigh-Mach cones
• 7. The two transition styles: the direct transition and the mother-daughter mechanism
• 8. Different ground motions
• 9. Concluding remarks
• Unusual large earthquakes on oceanic transform faults
• 2. Pre-existing zones of weakness on the ocean floor
• 3. Re-activation of old transform faults: earthquakes with conjugate faulting in oceanic environments
• 3.1. The 1989 great Macquarie Ridge earthquake reactivated a dormant conjugate fault
• 3.2. The 1987-1992 and the January 23, 2018 Gulf of Alaska earthquake sequences
• 3.3. The Mw7.8 18 June 2000 Wharton Basin earthquake: simultaneous rupture of conjugate faults in an oceanic setting
• 3.4. The January 11 and 12, 2012 twin Sumatra earthquake (Mw8.6,8.2)
• 4. A great earthquake on a fossil fracture zone: the 2004 Tasman Sea earthquake
• 4.1. Slip below the Moho during earthquakes
• 5. A great earthquake with the main fault plane normal to regional transform faults: the 1998 Mw8.1 Antarctic plate earthquake
• 6. Conclusions
• The evolution of fault slip rate prior to earthquake: The role of slow- and fast-slip modes
• 1. Wide spectrum of slip rate from fast- to slow-slip
• 1.1. Various types of slow earthquakes
• 1.2. Complexity of slow earthquakes
• 1.3. The early acceleration phase of slow-slip event
• 2. Episodic unlocking of fault prior to large earthquake
• 2.1. Foreshock sequence of the 2011 Mw 9.0 Tohoku-Oki, Japan earthquake
• 2.2. Foreshock sequence of the 2014 Mw 8.2 Iquique, Chile earthquake.
• 2.3. Triggering of the 2014 Mw 7.3 Papanoa, Mexico earthquake by a slow-slip event
• 2.4. Foreshock sequence of the 2016 Mw 7.0 Kumamoto, Japan earthquake
• 3. Discussion
• 4. Conclusions
• The spectrum of fault slip modes from elastodynamic rupture to slow earthquakes
• 2. Mechanics of slow slip
• 2.1. Friction laws for slow slip
• 2.2. Laboratory observations of the full spectrum of slip modes from fast to slow
• 2.3. Mechanics of laboratory slow earthquakes
• 3. Earthquake scaling laws for dynamic rupture and slow slip
• From foreshocks to mainshocks: mechanisms and implications for earthquake nucleation and rupture propagation
• 2. Foreshocks and mainshocks
• 2.1. 1934 and 1966 Parkfield, California, USA
• 2.2. 1992 Joshua Tree, California, USA
• 2.3. 1999 Izmit, Turkey
• 2.4. 1999 Hector Mine, California, USA
• 3. Mainshock initial rupture process
• 3.1. 1989 Loma Prieta, California, USA
• 3.2. 2004 Parkfield, California, USA
• 4. Near source observations at SAFOD
• 5. Discussion
• Experimental statistics and stochastic modeling of stick-slip dynamics in a sheared granular fault
• 1. Motivations
• 1.1. Crackling noise
• 1.2. The point of view of the statistical physics
• 1.3. Critical phenomena
• 1.4. Universality
• 2. Sheared granular matter in laboratory experiments
• 2.1. The laboratory set up
• 2.2. Distribution of dynamical quantities
• 3. A stochastic model for the slider motion
• 3.1. The friction force
• 3.2. Results from the model
• 4. Criticality and its possible breakdown
• 4.1. Where does criticality come from?
• 4.2. The ABBM model
• 4.3. Breakdown of criticality
• 5. Summary and perspectives
• Inversion of earthquake rupture process: Theory and applications
• 2. Theory and methods.
• 2.1. Seismic inversion
• 2.1.1. Inversion with fixed rake
• 2.1.2. Inversion with rake variation
• 2.1.3. Limitations and constraints
• 2.1.4. Equations for the three kinds of inversions
• 2.1.5. An example: The 2009 Mw6.3 L'Aquila, Italy, earthquake
• 2.2. Joint inversion of seismic and geodetic data
• 3. Applications
• 3.1. The Mw7.8 Kunlun Mountain Pass earthquake of 14 November 2001
• 3.1.1. Tectonic settings
• 3.1.2. Aftershocks
• 3.1.3. Focal mechanism
• 3.1.4. Distribution of static slip
• 3.1.5. Source rupture process
• 3.1.6. Surface ruptures
• 3.2. The Mw7.9 Wenchuan, Sichuan, earthquake of 12 May 2008
• 3.2.1. Tectonic setting
• 3.2.2. Focal mechanism and aftershocks
• 3.2.3. Distribution of static slip
• 3.2.4. Source rupture process
• 3.3. The Mw6.9 Yushu, Qinghai, earthquake of 14 April 2010
• 3.3.1. Tectonic setting
• 3.3.2. Focal mechanism
• 3.3.3. Distribution of static slip
• 3.3.4. Source rupture process
• 3.4. Applications to the earthquake emergency response
• 4. Summary
• Do plates begin to slip before some large earthquakes?
• 2. Izmit earthquake
• 3. Interplate and intraplate earthquakes
• Dynamics and spectral properties of subduction earth-quakes
• 2. Observations
• 3. Theory
• 3.1. Near field from a point source in an infinite medium
• 3.2. A simplified model
• 4. The 1 April 2014 Iquique earthquake
• 5. The 24 April 2017 Valparaiso earthquake
• 5.1. Observations of the Valparaiso earthquake
• 6. Discussion
• 7. Conclusions
• Earthquake occurrence, recurrence, and hazard
• 2. Earthquake phenomenology: the state of the art
• 3. Earthquakes according to PSHA
• Assumption 0. A probabilistic model of earthquake occurrence can be derived
• Assumption 1. Seismicity is known
• Assumption 2. Seismicity is time independent.
• Assumption 3. Tectonic strain is released by large earthquakes
• Assumption 4. Strain energy is released by Characteristic Earthquakes
• Assumption 5. The impossible assumption: Characteristic Earthquakes occurring at random
• Assumption 6. Exceedance probability and Return Time
• Assumption 7. The sum of ignorance leads to knowledge: the cognitive democracy of logic trees
• 4. Discussion
• 5. Conclusions
• List of participants.

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1-61499-979-1

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