ERC Starting Grant · 2024
Observing the Mechanisms of Earthquake Nucleation
Earthquakes are one of the most expressive phenomena of our planet, able to suddenly reshape the surface of the Earth and affect countless lives every year. Any effort towards earthquake forecast and hazard mitigation must rely on a profound comprehension of seismogenesis. However, earthquakes are phenomena that emerge from a complex, dynamic system of mechanisms that operate at inaccessible depths within the Earth. The impossibility to directly observe the birth of an earthquake (i.e., the “nucleation”) frustrates our effort to have new breakthroughs on their physics. The overarching goal of OMEN is to directly observe the mechanisms of earthquake nucleation to allow for a step-change in…
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