AGU Advances (Mar 2020)

The Transient and Intermittent Nature of Slow Slip

  • R. Jolivet,
  • W. B. Frank

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1029/2019AV000126
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 1, no. 1
pp. n/a – n/a

Abstract

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To first order, faults are locked while stress builds up to a devastating earthquake. However, we know that faults also slip slowly. After decades of geophysical observation, slow slip is now recognized as part of a continuum of transient deformation ranging from the dynamic propagation of seismic rupture to aseismic events over a wide range of durations and sizes. A growing body of evidence suggests that large‐scale slow slip events can be decomposed into a multitude of smaller, temporally clustered events. Slow slip is more frequent and more dynamic than is suggested by conceptual models of rate‐strengthening, stable slip.

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