Bifurcations at the stability transition of earthquake faulting

• Main Authors: Mele Veedu, Deepa, Giorgetti, Carolina, Scuderi, Marco, Barbot, Sylvain, Marone, Chris, Collettini, Cristiano
• Other Authors: Earth Observatory of Singapore
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2021
• Subjects: Science::General; Slow Slip; Earthquake
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/146197
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Tectonic faults typically break in a single rupture mode within the range of styles from slow slip to dynamic earthquake failure. However, in increasingly well‐documented instances, the same fault segment fails in both slow and fast modes within a short period, as in the sequences that culminated in...