We used scaled experimental (analog) models with wet clay to investigate how conjugate sets of steeply dipping strike-slip faults affect deformation patterns during a subsequent phase of extension. In all twophase experiments, an initial phase of strike-slip deformation produces a long, wide deformation zone consisting of subvertical Riedel shears; synthetic R-shears and antithetic R'-shears tr...

Abstract Near-fault ground motions may contain impulse behavior on velocity records. To calculate the probability of occurrence impulsive signals, a large dataset is collected from various national data providers and strong motion databases. The has number parameters which carry information earthquake physics, ruptured faults, parameters, distance between station several parts fault. Relation s...

Abstract The Eastern California shear zone is a complex set of dextral faults that accommodates significant plate motion and has produced large earthquakes. evolution this system why it consists closely spaced, irregular fail in multi‐fault ruptures are not well understood. Here we analyze the geometry, spatial distribution, Quaternary slip activity right‐lateral southern Mojave block. We find ...

The study area is located northwest and south of Johanson Lake. bounded to the northeast by the northwcsttrending Lay fault and to the west by the north-northwesttrending Finlay-lngenika fault. The Finlay-lngcnike fault is ii dextral transcurrent fault, and is part of the very prominent strike-slip fault system in north-central British Columbia (Gabrielse, 19X5). This project was undertaken to ...

Abstract Crustal deformation occurs both as localized slip along faults and distributed off of faults. While there are few robust estimates off‐fault in nature, scaled physical experiments simulating crustal strike‐slip faulting allow direct measurement the ratio fault to regional deformation, quantified kinematic efficiency (KE). We offer an approach predict KE using a 2D convolutional neural ...

This study focuses on determining the orientation and constraining magnitude of present-day stresses in Dezful Embayment Iran’s Zagros Fold Thrust Belt. Two datasets are used: first includes petrophysical data from 25 wells (3 to 4 km deep), second contains 108 earthquake focal mechanisms, mostly occurring blind active basement faults (5 20 deep). Formal stress inversion analysis mechanisms dem...

A destructive earthquake (Mw 6.1) struck Pasaman, West Sumatra, Indonesia, on 25 February 2022, resulting in at least 18 deaths and damage to 1765 buildings. Our relocated foreshock, mainshock, aftershocks their source mechanisms reveal a previously unknown ∼20 km long segment of the Sumatran Fault as result dextral strike-slip motion (strike N132oE dip 72oSW) along what we have called Kajai Fa...

U the physics of complex phenomena such as earthquakes is a formidable challenge. Because we are constrained by our inability to do experiments on earthquake faults, we turn to computers as our earthquake laboratories. Computer simulations of earthquakes help us to test theoretical models and allow us to generate catalogs of synthetic earthquake events. In this column, we discuss several models...

We examined the spatial relationship between seismicity and upper crustal structure in the Wakayama region, northwestern Kii Peninsula, Japan, by investigating microearthquake focal mechanisms and the local stress field. The focal mechanisms of most events studied fall into three categories: (1) normal faulting with N–S-oriented T-axes mainly occurring at shallow depths, (2) reverse faulting wi...