Exhumed fault zones offer insights into deformation processes associated with earthquakes
in unparalleled spatial resolution; however it can be difficult to differentiate seismic slip from …

Earthquakes are the result of a combination of (1) physico-chemical processes operating in
fault zones, which allow ruptures to nucleate and rock friction to decrease with increasing …

This essential reference for graduate students and researchers provides a unified treatment
of earthquakes and faulting as two aspects of brittle tectonics at different timescales. The …

Advances in observational, laboratory, and modeling techniques open the way to the
development of physical models of the seismic cycle with potentially predictive power. To …

One aspect of earthquake physics not adequately addressed is why some earthquakes
generate thousands of aftershocks while other earthquakes generate few, if any …

Experiments measuring friction over a wide range of sliding velocities find that the value of
the friction coefficient varies widely: friction is high and behaves according to the rate and …

The constitutive behavior of faults is central to many interconnected aspects of earthquake
science, from fault dynamics to induced seismicity, to seismic hazards characterization. Yet …

The paper describes a thermo-hydro-mechanical formulation to model thermally induced
effects due to the irreversible work input generated during soil deformation. The model was …

The final slip of about 450 m at about 30 m/s of the 1963 Vaiont landslide (Italy) was
preceded by> 3 year long creeping phase which was localized in centimeter‐thick clay‐rich …

The scope of the paper encompasses planar and compound sliding motions, which may
exhibit creeping behaviour during a certain period but may evolve to a very rapid motion …