[1] We study how enforcing self-consistency in the statistical properties of the preshear and postshear stress on a fault can be used to constrain fault constitutive behavior beyond that required to produce a desired spatial and temporal evolution of slip in a single event. We explore features of rupture dynamics that (1) lead to slip heterogeneity in earthquake ruptures and (2) maintain these ...

Abstract Brittle structures identified within the largest karstic cave of Sudetes (the Niedźwiedzia Cave) were studied to reconstruct paleostress driving post-Variscan tectonic activity in NE Bohemian Massif. Individual fault population datasets, including local strike and dip planes, striations, Riedel shear, enabled us discuss orientation principal stresses tensor. The (meso) fault-slip data ...

in this paper, a theoretical approach is proposed, in which spatial distribution of the strength of interplate coupling between two faces of strike-slip faults is investigated in detail through the inverse analysis of synthesized geodetic data. synthesized (or available) geodetic data representing free surface movements is implemented to determine the solution of undertaken inverse problem that...

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...

Detailed knowledge of fault geometry is important for accurate seismic hazard assessment. The Gulf Aqaba, which corresponds to the southern termination 1200-km-long Dead Sea system, remains one least known parts this plate boundary fault, in large part due its location offshore. Classically, Aqaba has been described as a succession three pull-apart basins. Here, building on new multibeam bathym...

The New Madrid seismic zone (NMSZ) in the central United States is one of the most active regions of intraplate seismicity in North America and site of the devastating 1811–1812 earthquake sequence (Nuttli, 1973; Johnston and Schweig, 1996). The NMSZ lies within the NE–SW trending Reelfoot rift (Fig. 1), which represents a failed rift arm that developed during the Late Proterozoic and Early Cam...

Analytical solution for the problem of a surface-breaking long strike-slip fault in an elastic layer overlying an elastic half-space is well known. The purpose of this note is to obtain the corresponding solution for a blind fault. Since the solution is valid for arbitrary values of the fault-depth and the dip angle, the effects of these two important fault parameters can be studied numerically...

Offset geomorphic features along the Superstition Hills fault show evidence for at least one slip event prior to the 1987 surface rupture, and possibly as many as four to five earlier prehistoric earthquakes. We documented several geomorphic features that appeared offset by multiple events by making detailed topographic maps. Offset features were abundant along reaches of the fault with high to...

The velocity field of present-day deformation in Central Asia is modelled using a set of four rotating blocks (Siberia, Tarim, Tibet, India) on a spherical earth. A best-fit is inverted on the basis of estimated shorteningrates across the main thrust zones (Himalayas, Tien Shan) and measured slip-rates along the principal strike-slip faults (Altyn Tagh and Karakorum) separating those blocks. Th...