Nature Communications (Oct 2016)

Repeating microearthquake sequences interact predominantly through postseismic slip

  • Semechah K. Y. Lui,
  • Nadia Lapusta

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms13020
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 7

Abstract

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Small repeating earthquakes can be used to understand fault properties such as friction. Here, Lui et al. model the interaction between repeating earthquakes and find that postseismic creep dominates as the mechanism, which may help constrain the frictional properties of creeping fault segments.