Tem po ral b-value vari a tions have been com pletely ob tained for the seis mic fault ing pro cess of the 4 March 2008 Taoyuan earth quake (ML = 5.2), south ern Tai wan. In ad di tion to trig ger ing sev eral hun dred after shocks, the mainshock was pre ceded by two groups of foreshocks (64 events) that clus tered along the nar row ma jor fault zone. A high b-value of ~1.25, es ti mated from t...

Strain patterns within the forearc at a convergent margin adjacent to a passing fault-fault-trench triple junction show a systematic evolution. We describe late Neogene and Quaternary deformation in northern coastal California in the last 3 m.y. associated with the migration of the Mendocino triple junction. Deformation in the North American forearc near Humbolt Bay consists of a 30-km-wide zon...

The Makassar Strait region has had the highest frequency of historical tsunami events for Indonesia. The strait has a seismic activity due to the convergence of four tectonic plates that produces a complex mixture of structures. The main tsunamigenic features in the Makassar Strait are the Palu-Koro and Pasternoster transform fault zones, which form the boundaries of the Makassar trough. Analys...

[1] Hydraulic diffusivity controls fluid pressure and hence affects effective normal stress during rupture. Models suggest a particularly spectacular example of fluid pressurization during the Mw = 7.6 1999 Chichi earthquake when pressurization may have reduced highfrequency shaking in the regions of large slip if the fault was sufficiently sealed. We investigate in situ hydraulic diffusivity w...

Paleoseismological study of geologic features thought to result from Quaternary tectonic faulting can characterize the frequencies and sizes of large prehistoric and historical earthquakes, thereby improving the accuracy and precision of seismichazard assessments. Greater accuracy and precision can reduce the likelihood of both underprotection and unnecessary design and construction costs. Publ...

Local seismic arrays were deployed at two locations along the San Andreas fault (SAF) near Parkfield, California, before and after the 2004 M 6.0 Parkfield earthquake. Using local earthquakes we determine the anisotropic field within 1– 2 km of the main trace of the SAF at the two array locations separated by 12 km. The initial array, near the SAFOD site, was deployed for six weeks in October a...

This paper discusses the application of weighted fuzzy reasoning spiking neural P systems (WFRSN P systems) to fault diagnosis in traction power supply systems (TPSSs) of China high-speed railways. Four types of neurons are considered in WFRSN P systems to make them suitable for expressing status information of protective relays and circuit breakers, and a weighted matrix-based reasoning algori...