The geophysics, geology and mechanics of slow fault slip

R Bürgmann - Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 2018 - Elsevier
Modern geodetic and seismologic observations describe the behavior of fault slip over a
vast range of spatial and temporal scales. Slip at sub-seismogenic speeds is evident from …

Slow earthquake scaling reconsidered as a boundary between distinct modes of rupture propagation

S Ide, GC Beroza - Proceedings of the National Academy of …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
The scaling law for slow earthquakes, which is a linear relationship between seismic
moment and duration, was proposed 15 y ago and initiated a debate on the difference in …

A review of shallow slow earthquakes along the Nankai Trough

S Takemura, Y Hamada, H Okuda, Y Okada… - Earth, Planets and …, 2023 - Springer
Slow earthquakes occur at deep and shallow plate boundaries along the Nankai Trough.
Deep slow earthquakes are continuously distributed along the 30–40 km depth contours of …

Slow slip events in the roots of the San Andreas fault

B Rousset, R Bürgmann, M Campillo - Science advances, 2019 - science.org
Episodic tremor and accompanying slow slip are observed at the down-dip edge of
subduction seismogenic zones. While tremors are the seismic signature of this …

Self-similarity of low-frequency earthquakes

M Supino, N Poiata, G Festa, JP Vilotte, C Satriano… - Scientific Reports, 2020 - nature.com
Low-frequency earthquakes are a particular class of slow earthquakes that provide a unique
source of information on the physical processes along a subduction zone during the …

[HTML][HTML] Seismic energy radiation and along-strike heterogeneities of shallow tectonic tremors at the Nankai Trough and Japan Trench

S Yabe, S Baba, T Tonegawa, M Nakano, S Takemura - Tectonophysics, 2021 - Elsevier
Shallow slow earthquakes have been documented along shallow plate interfaces near
trenches. Recent geophysical observation networks located offshore of Japan enable us to …

Fault zone heterogeneities explain depth-dependent pattern and evolution of slow earthquakes in Cascadia

Y Luo, Z Liu - Nature Communications, 2021 - nature.com
Slow earthquakes including tremor and slow-slip events are recent additions to the
conventional earthquake family and have a close link to megathrust earthquakes. Slow …

Moment‐duration scaling of low‐frequency earthquakes in Guerrero, Mexico

G Farge, NM Shapiro, WB Frank - Journal of Geophysical …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Low‐frequency earthquakes (LFEs) are detected within tremor, as small, repetitive,
impulsive low‐frequency (1–8 Hz) signals. While the mechanism causing this depletion of …

Observing and modeling the spectrum of a slow slip event

JC Hawthorne, NM Bartlow - Journal of Geophysical Research …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
We estimate and model the normalized moment rate power spectrum of large slow slip
events in Cascadia. We estimate the spectrum using data from GPS‐derived slip inversions …

Revisiting seismic energy of shallow tremors: Amplifications due to site and propagation path effects near the Nankai Trough

S Takemura, K Emoto, S Yabe - Journal of Geophysical …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
We investigated the effects of the propagation path and site amplification of shallow tremors
along the Nankai Trough. Using far‐field S‐wave propagation from intraslab earthquake …