Locking on a megathrust as a cause of distributed faulting and fault-jumping earthquakes

• Main Authors: Moore, James Daniel Paul, Lamb, Simon, Arnold, Richard
• Other Authors: Earth Observatory of Singapore
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2019
• Subjects: Natural Hazards; Seismology; Engineering::Environmental engineering
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/85480; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/50127
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Seismicity on large faults is often characterized in terms of an independent recurrence time and magnitude distribution, which forms the basis for calculating future earthquake probabilities. The underlying assumption is that the driving mechanism for earthquakes on any particular fault is uniquely...