Nature Communications (Sep 2021)

The slow self-arresting nature of low-frequency earthquakes

  • Xueting Wei,
  • Jiankuan Xu,
  • Yuxiang Liu,
  • Xiaofei Chen

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-25823-w
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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Low-frequency earthquakes are a series of small earthquakes with lower dominant frequencies than ordinary earthquakes. By comparing the simulated earthquakes with the real data, we find that low-frequency earthquakes represent an earthquake rupture process that arrests spontaneously.