A major question about the Himalaya remains open: does a great earthquake (like the Mw~ 8.1 1934 earthquake) release all the strain stored by the Tibet–India convergence during the …
SL Bilek, T Lay - Geosphere, 2018 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
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 …
Large earthquakes are usually assumed to release all of the strain accumulated since the previous event, implying a reduced seismic hazard after them. However, long records of …
The Chilean subduction zone is one of the most active in the world. Six events of magnitude greater than M_w= 7.5 M w= 7.5 have occurred in the last 10 years, including the 2010 …
J Moernaut, MV Daele, K Heirman… - Journal of …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Understanding the long‐term earthquake recurrence pattern at subduction zones requires continuous paleoseismic records with excellent temporal and spatial resolution and stable …
Abstract On 16 September 2015, the MW= 8.2 Illapel megathrust earthquake ruptured the Central Chilean margin. Combining inversions of displacement measurements and seismic …
Abstract The 27 February 2010, Mw 8.8 Maule earthquake ruptured~ 500 km along the plate boundary offshore central Chile between 34° S and 38.5° S. Establishing whether coseismic …
Constraints on the potential size and recurrence time of strong subduction-zone earthquakes come from the degree of locking between the down-going and overriding …
T Lay - Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 2015 - Elsevier
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 …