The Parkfield tremors reveal slow and fast ruptures on the same asperity

Deepa Mele Veedu () and Sylvain Barbot ()
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Deepa Mele Veedu: Earth Observatory of Singapore, Asian School of the Environment, Nanyang Technological University
Sylvain Barbot: Earth Observatory of Singapore, Asian School of the Environment, Nanyang Technological University

Nature, 2016, vol. 532, issue 7599, 361-365

Abstract: A tremor source on the San Andreas Fault produced an unusual sequence of low-frequency earthquakes until it was disrupted by the 2004 Parkfield earthquake; the peculiar recurrence pattern has now been modelled, showing that such slip behaviour occurs when the tremor asperity size is close to the critical nucleation size of earthquakes.

Date: 2016
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