ERC Starting Grant · 2016
Plate-rate experimental deformation: Aseismic, transient or seismic fault slip
Despite many advances in earthquake science, the tendency for faults to host earthquake slip, aseismic slip or slow slip events is far from well understood. Earthquakes are not yet predictable in a meaningful way, and laboratory observations do not satisfactorily explain many general observations of fault slip. Existing data has been gathered at slip velocities orders of magnitude faster than plate convergence rates, therefore the fundamental question addressed by the PREDATORS project is how faults slip when driven tectonic rates as they are in nature. I suggest that laboratory friction experiments conducted at these rates may reveal widespread frictional instability that explains the…
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