Communications Earth & Environment (Aug 2020)

Generation of sintered fault rock and its implications for earthquake energetics and fault healing

  • Tetsuro Hirono,
  • Shunya Kaneki,
  • Tsuyoshi Ishikawa,
  • Jun Kameda,
  • Naoya Tonoike,
  • Akihiro Ito,
  • Yuji Miyazaki

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-020-0004-z
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 1, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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Earthquake-induced sintering of fault rocks may enhance fault healing processes in the period immediately after seismic slip, according to observations of natural and experimental samples.