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Member Since 2007
Ake Fagereng
Professor, Cardiff University
Professional Experience
Cardiff University
Professor
2022 - Present
University of Cape Town
Senior Lecturer
2010 - 2014
Education
University of Otago
Doctorate
2010
University of Cape Town
Bachelors
Honors & Awards
Outstanding Reviewer Award - Geophysical Research Letters
Received December 2013
Current Roles
Member
Tectonophysics Jason Morgan Early Career Award Committee
Associate Editor
Geophysical Research Letters
Publications
Metamorphic Inheritance, Lower‐Crustal Earthquakes, and Continental Rifting

The Malawi Rift is localized within Precambrian amphibolite‐granulite facies metamorphic belts, bounded by up to 150 km long border faul...

March 07, 2024
AGU Abstracts
Non-linear viscous shear zones and a potential slow slip mechanism
COMPARATIVE INVESTIGATIONS OF SLOW-TO-FAST EARTHQUAKES: OBSERVATIONS, EXPERIMENTS, AND NUMERICAL MODELING V ORAL
tectonophysics | 15 december 2022
Lucy Lu, Ake Fagereng
Slow slip events (SSEs) are episodes of aseismic slip at rates of 0.1-1 m/year that are commonly temporally associated with tremors. SSEs have been ob...
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Mechanisms and Magnitudes of Quartz Cementation Impacting Fault Healing
FRICTIONAL, GEOLOGICAL, AND GEOPHYSICAL SIGNATURES OF FAULT HEALING: MECHANISMS AND IMPLICATIONS FOR DEFORMATION DURING THE EARTHQUAKE CYCLE III ORAL
tectonophysics | 14 december 2022
Randolph T. Williams, Ake Fagereng
Quartz veins are common in fault zones exhumed from earthquake nucleation temperatures (150°C350°C), and may record an important mechanism of strength...
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Does Abundant Afterslip mean Productive Aftershock Sequences?
SEISMOLOGY CONTRIBUTIONS: EARTHQUAKES I ORAL
seismology | 14 december 2021
Robert Churchill, Maximilian J. Werner, Ake Fagere...
Aftershock sequences exhibit complex spatio-temporal-magnitude behaviours which may require causative mechanisms beyond coseismic Coulomb static stres...
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Volunteer Experience
2015 - 2027
Associate Editor
Geophysical Research Letters
2024 - 2026
Member
Tectonophysics Jason Morgan Early Career Award Committee
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