Abstract Recent earthquakes in Chile, 2014, Mw 8.2 Iquique, 2015, Mw 8.3 Illapel and 2016,
Mw 7.6 Chiloé have put in evidence some problems with the straightforward application of …

After more than 100 years of earthquake research, earthquake forecasting, which relies on
knowledge of past fault rupture patterns, has become the foundation for societal defense …

Subduction zone megathrust faults host Earth's largest earthquakes, along with multitudes of
smaller events that contribute to plate convergence. An understanding of the faulting …

Because of a combination of new observational tools and a flurry of large megathrust
earthquakes, tremendous progress has been made in recent years towards understanding …

During the decade from mid-2004 to mid-2014 18 great (M w≥ 8.0) earthquakes occurred
globally (∼ 1.8 per year), compared to 71 from 1900 to mid-2004 (∼ 0.68 per year), yielding …

Combined with the multi‐array back‐projection and finite‐fault joint inversion methods, we
investigate the detailed spatiotemporal rupture complexity of the 2021 MW 7.4 Maduo …

So far in this century, six very large–magnitude earthquakes (MW≥ 7.8) have ruptured
separate portions of the subduction zone plate boundary of western South America along …

Megathrust earthquakes of magnitude close to 9 are followed by large-scale (thousands of
km) and long-lasting (decades), significant crustal and mantle deformation. This deformation …

A sharp thermal contrast between the cold forearc and the hot arc and backarc is considered
fundamental to various subduction-zone processes. However, direct observational evidence …

The 2016 Kumamoto earthquake sequence occurred on the Futagawa–Hinagu fault zone
near the Aso volcano on Kyushu island. The sequence was initiated with two major (Mw≥ …