Nature Communications (Sep 2022)

Rock and fault rheology explain differences between on fault and distributed seismicity

  • C. Collettini,
  • M. R. Barchi,
  • N. De Paola,
  • F. Trippetta,
  • E. Tinti

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-33373-y
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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A new study sheds light on earthquake physics, showing that lithological and rheological heterogeneities in the rocks composing the seismogenic layer strongly influence seismicity distributions and earthquake scaling laws.