Effects of material property variations on slip estimates for subduction interface slow-slip events

A silent slip event on the deeper Cascadia subduction interface.

Continuous Global Positioning System sites in southwestern British Columbia, Canada, and northwestern Washington state, USA, have been moving landward as a result of the locked state of the Cascadia subduction fault offshore. In the summer of 1999, a cluster of seven sites briefly reversed their direction of motion. No seismicity was associated with this event. The sudden displacements are best...

Tremors and Slow Slip Events Slow Earthquakes Coincident with Episodic

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Dilatant strengthening as a mechanism for slow slip events

[1] The mechanics of slow slip events (SSE) in subduction zones remain unresolved. We suggest that SSE nucleate in areas of unstable friction under drained conditions, but as slip accelerates dilatancy reduces pore pressure p quenching instability. Competition between dilatant strengthening and thermal pressurization may control whether slip is slow or fast. We model SSE with 2‐D elasticity, ra...

Episodic tremor and slip on the Cascadia subduction zone: the chatter of silent slip.

We found that repeated slow slip events observed on the deeper interface of the northern Cascadia subduction zone, which were at first thought to be silent, have unique nonearthquake seismic signatures. Tremorlike seismic signals were found to correlate temporally and spatially with slip events identified from crustal motion data spanning the past 6 years. During the period between slips, tremo...

Predicting the Geodetic Signature of MW 8 Slow Slip Events