Mani Earthquake, occurred on Nov. 8, 1997 in Tibet, China, is the strongest event in China since 90’s in 20 century. Investigation and research of its principle and geometry, dynamics related to surface rupture zone is very significant to analyze the development and evolution of China’s earthquake in the future. In this study, we investigate the distribution of surface deformation and extract d...

We report on measurements of residual stress up to 300 MPa with a microfocused synchrotron X-ray beam in quartz fragments in a cataclasite from the damage zone of the San Andreas fault, California (USA). Samples were extracted from the San Andreas Fault Observatory at Depth drill core at a depth of 2.7 km. Stresses were derived from lattice distortions observed on Laue diffraction images. These...

In this paper, the mechanism of fault pressurization in rapid slip events is analyzed on the basis of a complete characterization of the thermo-poro-mechanical behavior of a clayey gouge extracted at 760m depth in Aigion fault in the active seismic zone of the Gulf of Corinth, Greece. It is shown that the thermally collapsible character of this clayey gouge can be responsible for a dramatic red...

Seismic velocity changes and nonvolcanic tremor activity in the Parkfield area in California reveal that large earthquakes induce long-term perturbations of crustal properties in the San Andreas fault zone. The 2003 San Simeon and 2004 Parkfield earthquakes both reduced seismic velocities that were measured from correlations of the ambient seismic noise and induced an increased nonvolcanic trem...

In this work, two separate fault detection models are developed: one for the detection of faulty operation of a deep-trough hydroponic system which is caused by mechanical, actuator or sensor faults, and one for the detection of a category of biological faults (i.e. specific stressed situations of the plants), namely the ‘‘transpiration fault’’. The neural network methodology was proved to be s...

This study provides an example of fault structure delineation using both geophysical measurements and soil-gas surveys. Seismic refraction and electrical resistivity tomography investigations were performed in com-bination with Direct Push (DP) soil gas concentration measurements, with the main objective being the char-acterization of an assumed permeable fault structure which is covered by sed...