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Member Since 1998
Nadia Lapusta
Professor, California Institute of Technology
Professional Experience
California Institute of Technology
Professor
2002 - Present
Education
Harvard University
Doctorate
2001
Doctorate
Honors & Awards
Union Fellow
Received December 2020
Citation
For pioneering advances in physics-based numerical modeling of the earthquake cycle
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Current Roles
Member
Seismology Fellows Committee
Publications
A Spectral Boundary‐Integral Method for Faults and Fractures in a Poroelastic Solid: Simulations of ...
Fluid‐fault interactions result in many two‐way coupled processes across a range of length scales, from the micron scale of the shear z...
August 31, 2022
Resolving Simulated Sequences of Earthquakes and Fault Inter...
October 25, 2021
Scale Dependence of Earthquake Rupture Prestress in Models W...
September 29, 2021
AGU Abstracts
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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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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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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Volunteer Experience
2023 - 2024
Member
Seismology Fellows Committee
2009 - 2010
Associate Editor
JGR Solid Earth Section
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