Seismology: Taking it slow
Abstract
The 2011 Tohoku-oki earthquake ruptured part of a fault that typically slips in slow, transient events. Laboratory experiments show that when fault rocks are sheared at slow, plate tectonic speeds, the fault can slip either quickly or slowly.
- Publication:
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Nature Geoscience
- Pub Date:
- November 2015
- DOI:
- 10.1038/ngeo2565
- Bibcode:
- 2015NatGe...8..823S