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Nadia Lapusta
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Supershear transition of earthquake rupture on 3D faults with compact heterogeneity
ORIGINS AND IMPLICATIONS OF HETEROGENEITIES IN DRY AND FLUID-PRESSURIZED FAULT ZONES ACROSS SCALES I POSTER
tectonophysics | 15 december 2023
Mary Agajanian, Nadia Lapusta
Ruptures with intersonic speeds (supershear) have been observed both experimentally and in the field. Supershear ruptures have characteristic Mach fro...
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Dependence of rupture nucleation and propagation on fluid injection rate: effective stress vs. variations in friction properties
INDUCED AND TRIGGERED EARTHQUAKES: THEORY, OBSERVATIONS, IMPACT I POSTER
seismology | 15 december 2023
Maryam Alghannam, Stacy Larochelle, Nadia Lapusta,...
Understanding the influence of fluid pressure on friction and fault stability is essential in efforts to mitigate the seismic risk associated with sub...
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Frictional Stability of Granular Layers In the Presence of Fluids
RUPTURE AND DEFORMATION PROCESSES, FROM SLOW TO FAST AND FROM MICRO TO MACRO III POSTER
mineral and rock physics | 15 december 2023
Taeho Kim, Nadia Lapusta, Dan Faulkner, John D. Be...
Earthquake ruptures on pre-existing natural faults occur as shear deformation or slip - in layers of fault gouge composed of grains with the characte...
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Community Code Verification Exercises for Simulations of Earthquake Sequences and Aseismic Slip (SEAS): Effects from Dipping Faults and Full Elastodynamics to Fluids and Fault Friction Evolution
SLOW-TO-FAST EARTHQUAKES FROM SHALLOW TO DEEP: OBSERVATIONS, EXPERIMENTS, AND NUMERICAL MODELING IV POSTER
tectonophysics | 13 december 2023
Valere Lambert, Brittany A. Erickson, Junle Jiang,...
Numerical simulations of sequences of earthquakes and aseismic slip (SEAS) have rapidly progressed over recent decades to address fundamental problems...
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Uncertainty of seismological stress drops for complex fault models produced within a rate-and-state framework
EARTHQUAKE SOURCE CHARACTERIZATION AND FAULT ZONE PROPERTIES FROM MICROMETER TO KILOMETER SCALES IV POSTER
seismology | 12 december 2023
Yen-Yu Lin, Natalie Schaal, Nadia Lapusta
Stress drop is an important source parameter for understanding the kinetic behavior of earthquakes. In the past decades and even up to the present, se...
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Finite-element modeling of intermittent dynamic rupture in fault gouge using rate-and-state friction with flash heating
EARTHQUAKE SOURCE CHARACTERIZATION AND FAULT ZONE PROPERTIES FROM MICROMETER TO KILOMETER SCALES I ORAL
seismology | 11 december 2023
Shengduo Liu, Nadia Lapusta, Vito Rubino, Ares Ros...
Destructive earthquake ruptures on natural faults occur as dynamic slip in layers of a fine granular material known as the fault gouge. An experimenta...
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Comparing Modeling and Seismological Stress Drops of the Repeating Earthquake Sequences Near Parkfield, California, USA
MICROSEISMICITY AND FAULT SLIP: OBSERVATIONS, MODELING, AND EXPERIMENTS III POSTER
seismology | 15 december 2022
Hoi Leung Pun, Semechah K. Y. Lui, Yen-Yu Lin, Nad...
Stress drop is a fundamental parameter that enables a better understanding of earthquake source physics. The repeating earthquake sequences (RES) on t...
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Bridging Time Scales between Great Megathrust Earthquakes and Long-Term Plate Motion
MULTISCALE CRUSTAL DEFORMATION IN SUBDUCTION ZONES AND THE MEGATHRUST EARTHQUAKE CYCLE: PROGRESS FROM OBSERVATIONS AND MODELS II POSTER
tectonophysics | 14 december 2022
Jiaqi Fang, Michael Gurnis, Nadia Lapusta
Subduction zones host great earthquakes. The spatiotemporal variability of these earthquakes is thought to be intimately coupled to plate tectonics an...
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