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SUBMITTER: Tong X
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6156592 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Nature communications 20180925 1
We perform numerical experiments of damped quasi-dynamic fault slip that include a rate-and-state behavior at steady state to simulate earthquakes and a plastic rheology to model permanent strain. The model shear zone has a finite width which represents a natural fault zone. Here we reproduce fast and slow events that follow theoretical and observational scaling relationships for earthquakes and slow slip events (SSEs). We show that the transition between fast and slow slip occurs when the frict ...[more]