Initial effective stress controls the nature of earthquakes

Autor: François X. Passelègue, Michelle Almakari, Pierre Dublanchet, Fabian Barras, Jérôme Fortin, Marie Violay
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2020
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Zdroj: Nature Communications, Vol 11, Iss 1, Pp 1-8 (2020)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2041-1723
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-020-18937-0
Popis: The authors show that seismogenic faults can be activated by stress perturbations by all possible modes of slip independently of the frictional properties. They demonstrate, that the nature of seismicity is mostly governed by the initial stress level along the faults.
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