ERC Consolidator Grant · 2025
Deep earthquakes (>70km) are a puzzling yet insufficiently understood process occurring inside the Earth. Despite their potential for significant magnitudes (up to 9) and associated hazards, their physics remains elusive. The theoretical inhibition of earthquakes with increasing temperature and pressure at depth contrasts with over a century of observed occurrences, prompting the persistent question: What causes deep earthquakes? We argue that to tackle this question we need a methodological shift to obtain new observations of deep Earth processes and dynamics, which must be integrated into realistic physical models of slabs. The SODA project introduces deep learning methods to analyse…
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