[1] Analysis and modeling of InSAR data covering the 2008 Reno-Mogul M 4.7 earthquake swarm indicate that the main event was produced by slip on a previously unrecognized strike-slip fault in the Reno basin. Deformation of 0.5– 2.5 cm in radar line-of-sight was produced by the main event and post-seismic slip over an area of more than 150 km. This earthquake is one of the smallest magnitude eve...

We use interferometric synthetic aperture radar (InSAR) and Global Positioning System (GPS) observations to investigate static deformation due to the 1999 Mw 7.1 Hector Mine earthquake, that occurred in the eastern California shear zone. Interferometric decorrelation, phase, and azimuth offset measurements indicate regions of surface and near-surface slip, which we use to constrain the geometry...

Article history: Received 24 February 2016 Received in revised form 11 July 2016 Accepted 12 July 2016 Available online xxxx OnApril 25th 2015, theMw7.8 Gorkha (Nepal) earthquake ruptured a portion of theMain Himalayan Thrust underlying Kathmandu and surrounding regions. We develop kinematic slip models of the Gorkha earthquake using both a regularized multi-time-window (MTW) approach and an un...

the nayband strike-slip fault forms the western margin of the micro-continental lut block in eastern iran. neogene and quaternary mafic volcanic rocks collected near tabas, along the northern part of the fault (nnf; 15 ma), and further to the south, along the middle part of the fault (mnf; 2 ma), are within-plate sodic-series alkali olivine basalts with high tio2 and up to >16% normative nephel...

Non-volcanic deep low-frequency tremors in southwest Japan exhibit a strong temporal and spatial correlation with slow slip detected by the dense seismic network. The tremor signal is characterized by a low-frequency vibration with a predominant frequency of 0.5–5 Hz without distinct Por S-wave onset. The tremors are located using the coherent pattern of envelopes over many stations, and are es...

[1] There is abundant observational evidence for strike-slip displacement on the surface of Europa. Strike-slip motion between crustal blocks produces shear heating and an increase in temperature. We model the shear heating within the ice crust using a two-dimensional, finite difference formulation, with a near-surface brittle layer of constant specified thickness and a Newtonian ductile layer ...

A •nodel of mantle convection which generates plate tectonics requires strain rateor stress-dependent rheology in order to produce strong platelike flows with weak margins as well as strike-slip deformation and plate spin (i.e., toroidM motion). ttere, we exnploy a simple model of source-sink driven surface flow •o determine the form of such a theology that is appropriate for Earth's present-da...

A large fraction of major intracontinental strike-slip faults, defi ned here as those slipping at rates of ~10 mm/yr or more, lie adjacent to relatively strong regions, such as oceanic lithosphere or Precambrian shields. We suggest that such faults form adjacent to discontinuities in strength, because strain in a continuous medium must concentrate near such strong objects. Concentration in stra...