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...

Earthquake faults occur in networks that have dynamical modes not displayed by single isolated faults. Using simulations of the network of strike-slip faults in southern California, we find that the physics depends critically on both the interactions among the faults, which are determined by the geometry of the fault network, as well as on the stress dissipation properties of the nonlinear fric...

A structural model is developed for the south-central Taiwan fold-and-thrust belt that shows consistency across an array of data types and marks important step forward in consideration geological hazards risks. Although there general agreement about regional scale geology Taiwan, are considerable differences interpretations its western belt. In this paper, we bring together results our previous...

Tectonic motion across the Los Angeles region is distributed across an intricate network of strike-slip and thrust faults that will be released in destructive earthquakes similar to or larger than the 1933 M6.4 Long Beach and 1994 M6.7 Northridge events. Here we show that Los Angeles regional thrust, strike-slip, and oblique faults are connected and move concurrently with measurable surface def...

On March 31, 2020, an Mw 6.5 earthquake struck near Stanley, Idaho. More than 35% nondouble-couple component in long-period point-source solutions indicate a more complex source slip on planar fault. Using integrative analysis of seismological and geodetic data, we find that the Stanley ruptured pair opposing-dip faults offset by 10-km-wide step, including unmapped northern subfault with predom...