Slip bursts during coalescence of slow slip events in Cascadia [PDF]
Nature Communications, 2020 Slow slip events are commonly observed on natural faults all around the world and are suggested to precede large magnitude and/or high frequency earthquakes.
Quentin Bletery, Jean-Mathieu Nocquet
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Subdaily Slow Fault Slip Dynamics Captured by Low‐Frequency Earthquakes [PDF]
AGU Advances, 2023 Geodetic positioning is the geophysical record of reference for slow slip events, but typical daily solutions limit studies of the evolution of slow slip to its long‐term dynamics.
Caroline Mouchon +4 more
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The Transient and Intermittent Nature of Slow Slip [PDF]
AGU Advances, 2020 To first order, faults are locked while stress builds up to a devastating earthquake. However, we know that faults also slip slowly. After decades of geophysical observation, slow slip is now recognized as part of a continuum of transient deformation ...
R. Jolivet, W. B. Frank
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Integrated rupture mechanics for slow slip events and earthquakes [PDF]
Nature Communications, 2022 A new model elucidates the connections between silent earthquakes ("slow slip events") and regular ones by accounting for their finite rupture depth. It reconciles debated features of slow slip events and explains how they might lead to earthquakes.
Huihui Weng, Jean-Paul Ampuero
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Effects of episodic slow slip on seismicity and stress near a subduction-zone megathrust [PDF]
Nature Communications, 2021 Large slow slip earthquakes and tremor occur in subduction zones near the locked megathrust. Combined analysis of changes in slab seismicity and stress field near the times of such slow slip events highlights the role of fluid in promoting slow slip.
Saeko Kita +6 more
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Linking the scaling of tremor and slow slip near Parkfield, CA [PDF]
Nature Communications, 2022 Huang and Hawthorne present new evidence supporting that tremor and slow slip are linked by the same moment-duration scaling. First-order implications would include that tremor and slow slip are likely generated by the same fault zone process.
Hui Huang, Jessica C. Hawthorne
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The source scaling and seismic productivity of slow slip transients. [PDF]
Sci Adv, 2021 Aseismic and seismic slip scaling indicate similar physics governing tremor and earthquake swarms during slow slip events.
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Dilatant strengthening as a mechanism for slow slip events [PDF]
Journal of Geophysical Research, 2010 The mechanics of slow slip events (SSE) in subduction zones remain unresolved. We suggest that SSE nucleate in areas of unstable friction under drained conditions, but as slip accelerates dilatancy reduces pore pressure p quenching instability. Competition between dilatant strengthening and thermal pressurization may control whether slip is slow or ...
Paul Segall +2 more
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An exponential build-up in seismic energy suggests a months-long nucleation of slow slip in Cascadia [PDF]
Nature Communications, 2020 Using machine learning algorithms, the authors here identify slow slip precursors in the Cascadia subduction zone to last for months - which in turn argues for a much better predictability of slow slip rupture.
Claudia Hulbert +3 more
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Revealing the cluster of slow transients behind a large slow slip event. [PDF]
Sci Adv, 2018 A slow slip event is a cluster of small aseismic slip transients intermittently interrupted by relocking of the plate interface.
Frank WB +3 more
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