Investigations and new insights on earthquake mechanics from fault slip experiments

Fluid pressure heterogeneity during fluid flow in rocks: New laboratory measurement device and method

(2021) Nicolas Brantut et al.   GEOPHYSICAL JOURNAL INTERNATIONAL

Large deformation dynamic analysis of progressive failure in layered clayey slopes under seismic loading using the particle finite element method

(2021) Liang Wang et al.   Acta Geotechnica

HighSTEPS: A High Strain Temperature Pressure and Speed Apparatus to Study Earthquake Mechanics

(2021) M. Violay et al.   Rock Mechanics and Rock Engineering

Real-time determination of earthquake focal mechanism via deep learning

(2021) Wenhuan Kuang et al.   Nature Communications

Evaluation of shear slip stress transfer mechanism for induced microseismicity at In Salah CO2 storage site

(2021) Wenzhuo Cao et al.   International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control

Simulating Mining-Induced Seismicity Using the Material Point Method

(2021) Gys Basson et al.   ROCK MECHANICS AND ROCK ENGINEERING

Implications for rock instability precursors and principal stress direction from rock acoustic experiments

(2021) Longjun Dong et al.   International Journal of Mining Science and Technology

Empty region identification method and experimental verification for the two-dimensional complex structure

(2021) Longjun Dong et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ROCK MECHANICS AND MINING SCIENCES

Fluid-injection-induced earthquakes characterized by hybrid-frequency waveforms manifest the transition from aseismic to seismic slip

(2021) Hongyu Yu et al.   Nature Communications

Velocity-Free MS/AE Source Location Method for Three-Dimensional Hole-Containing Structures

(2020) Longjun Dong et al.   Engineering

Are normal fault earthquakes due to elastic rebound or gravitational collapse?

(2020) Christian Bignami et al.   ANNALS OF GEOPHYSICS

Experimental and modeling study of the effect of fault roughness on dynamic frictional sliding

(2020) Yuval Tal et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

The Role of Mining Intensity and Pre-existing Fracture Attributes on Spatial, Temporal and Magnitude Characteristics of Microseismicity in Longwall Coal Mining

(2020) Wenzhuo Cao et al.   ROCK MECHANICS AND ROCK ENGINEERING

The role of water lubrication in critical state fault slip

(2020) Zihao Dou et al.   ENGINEERING GEOLOGY

Injection-induced slip heterogeneity on faults in shale reservoirs

(2020) Yunzhong Jia et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ROCK MECHANICS AND MINING SCIENCES

Experimental study of impact of shearing velocity and effective normal stress on post-shearing permeability evolution of silica fault gouges

(2020) Sho Kimura et al.   TECTONOPHYSICS

Off‐Fault Damage Characterization During and After Experimental Quasi‐Static and Dynamic Rupture in Crustal Rock From Laboratory P Wave Tomography and Microstructures

(2020) Franciscus M. Aben et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-SOLID EARTH

Influence of fracture roughness on shear strength, slip stability and permeability: A mechanistic analysis by three-dimensional digital rock modeling

(2020) Chaoyi Wang et al.   Journal of Rock Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering

Stress Heterogeneity and Slip Weakening of Faults under Various Stress and Slip

(2020) Longjun Dong et al.   GEOFLUIDS

An exponential build-up in seismic energy suggests a months-long nucleation of slow slip in Cascadia

(2020) Claudia Hulbert et al.   Nature Communications

Quantitative Investigation of Tomographic Effects in Abnormal Regions of Complex Structures

(2020) Longjun Dong et al.   Engineering

Earthquake lubrication and healing explained by amorphous nanosilica

(2019) Christie D. Rowe et al.   Nature Communications

Stabilization of fault slip by fluid injection in the laboratory and in situ

(2019) Frédéric Cappa et al.   Science Advances

Dynamic viability of the 2016 Mw 7.8 Kaikōura earthquake cascade on weak crustal faults

(2019) Thomas Ulrich et al.   Nature Communications

Mechanical behaviour of fluid-lubricated faults

(2019) C. Cornelio et al.   Nature Communications

Fracture energy estimates from large-scale laboratory earthquakes

(2019) David S. Kammer et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Ground motions induced by mining seismic events with different focal mechanisms

(2019) Ju Ma et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ROCK MECHANICS AND MINING SCIENCES

Role of Weak Materials in Earthquake Rupture Dynamics

(2019) Tetsuro Hirono et al.   Scientific Reports

Particle tracking in ideal faulted blocks using 3D co-ordinate geometry

(2019) Soumyajit Mukherjee   MARINE AND PETROLEUM GEOLOGY

Unloading-induced rock fracture activation and maximum seismic moment prediction

(2019) Yinlin Ji et al.   ENGINEERING GEOLOGY

Present-day stress state and fault stability analysis in the capital area of China constrained by in situ stress measurements and focal mechanism solutions

(2019) Peng Li et al.   JOURNAL OF ASIAN EARTH SCIENCES

Similar scaling laws for earthquakes and Cascadia slow-slip events

(2019) Sylvain Michel et al.   NATURE

Effect of grain size and grain size distribution on slip dynamics: An experimental analysis

(2019) Jeremy Randolph-Flagg et al.   TECTONOPHYSICS

Global review of human-induced earthquakes

(2018) Gillian R. Foulger et al.   EARTH-SCIENCE REVIEWS

Collaborative localization method using analytical and iterative solutions for microseismic/acoustic emission sources in the rockmass structure for underground mining

(2018) Longjun Dong et al.   ENGINEERING FRACTURE MECHANICS

Shear-induced permeability reduction and shear-zone development of sand under high vertical stress

(2018) Sho Kimura et al.   ENGINEERING GEOLOGY

Numerical modelling of microseismicity associated with longwall coal mining

(2018) Wenzhuo Cao et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF COAL GEOLOGY

Discrimination of seismic sources in an underground mine using full waveform inversion

(2018) Ju Ma et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ROCK MECHANICS AND MINING SCIENCES

The Effects of Fault Roughness on the Earthquake Nucleation Process

(2018) Yuval Tal et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-SOLID EARTH

Permeability Variations Associated With Fault Reactivation in a Claystone Formation Investigated by Field Experiments and Numerical Simulations

(2018) Pierre Jeanne et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-SOLID EARTH

Pore Fluid Pressure Development in Compacting Fault Gouge in Theory, Experiments, and Nature

(2018) D. R. Faulkner et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-SOLID EARTH

Convolutional neural network for earthquake detection and location

(2018) Thibaut Perol et al.   Science Advances

The equation of motion for supershear frictional rupture fronts

(2018) David S. Kammer et al.   Science Advances

Seismicity and fault aseismic deformation caused by fluid injection in decametric in-situ experiments

(2018) Louis De Barros et al.   COMPTES RENDUS GEOSCIENCE

Stress Measurements for an In Situ Stimulation Experiment in Crystalline Rock: Integration of Induced Seismicity, Stress Relief and Hydraulic Methods

(2018) Hannes Krietsch et al.   ROCK MECHANICS AND ROCK ENGINEERING

Dynamic weakening during earthquakes controlled by fluid thermodynamics

(2018) M. Acosta et al.   Nature Communications

Simulation of slip transients and earthquakes in finite thickness shear zones with a plastic formulation

(2018) Xinyue Tong et al.   Nature Communications

Similarity of fast and slow earthquakes illuminated by machine learning

(2018) Claudia Hulbert et al.   Nature Geoscience

Qualitative Method and Case Study for Ground Vibration of Tunnels Induced by Fault-Slip in Underground Mine

(2018) Ju Ma et al.   ROCK MECHANICS AND ROCK ENGINEERING

High‐velocity friction experiments indicate magnetic enhancement and softening of fault gouges during seismic slip

(2018) Tao Yang et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-SOLID EARTH

Machine Learning Predicts Laboratory Earthquakes

(2017) Bertrand Rouet-Leduc et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

On the micromechanics of slip events in sheared, fluid-saturated fault gouge

(2017) Omid Dorostkar et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

The effect of water on strain localization in calcite fault gouge sheared at seismic slip rates

(2017) Marieke Rempe et al.   JOURNAL OF STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY

Experimental evidence that thrust earthquake ruptures might open faults

(2017) Vahe Gabuchian et al.   NATURE

Large fault slip peaking at trench in the 2011 Tohoku-oki earthquake

(2017) Tianhaozhe Sun et al.   Nature Communications

Understanding dynamic friction through spontaneously evolving laboratory earthquakes

(2017) V. Rubino et al.   Nature Communications

New Geometric Restriction for the Displacement–Constraint Points in Discontinuous Deformation Analysis

(2017) Jian-Hong Wu et al.   International Journal of Geomechanics

A classification of induced seismicity

(2017) C. Doglioni   Geoscience Frontiers

Slow and fast ruptures on a laboratory fault controlled by loading characteristics

(2017) Gregory C. Mclaskey et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-SOLID EARTH

Aseismic Motions Drive a Sparse Seismicity During Fluid Injections Into a Fractured Zone in a Carbonate Reservoir

(2017) Laure Duboeuf et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-SOLID EARTH

Rock friction under variable normal stress

(2017) Brian Kilgore et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-SOLID EARTH

Fault slip controlled by stress path and fluid pressurization rate

(2016) Melodie E. French et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Dehydration of lawsonite could directly trigger earthquakes in subducting oceanic crust

(2016) Keishi Okazaki et al.   NATURE

The Parkfield tremors reveal slow and fast ruptures on the same asperity

(2016) Deepa Mele Veedu et al.   NATURE

Seafloor geodetic constraints on interplate coupling of the Nankai Trough megathrust zone

(2016) Yusuke Yokota et al.   NATURE

Precursory changes in seismic velocity for the spectrum of earthquake failure modes

(2016) M. M. Scuderi et al.   Nature Geoscience

The structure of slip-pulses and supershear ruptures driving slip in bimaterial friction

(2016) Hadar Shlomai et al.   Nature Communications

Repeating microearthquake sequences interact predominantly through postseismic slip

(2016) Semechah K. Y. Lui et al.   Nature Communications

Laboratory observations of slow earthquakes and the spectrum of tectonic fault slip modes

(2016) J. R. Leeman et al.   Nature Communications

Geomechanical analysis of fluid injection and seismic fault slip for theMw4.8 Timpson, Texas, earthquake sequence

(2016) Zhiqiang Fan et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-SOLID EARTH

Fault structure, stress, or pressure control of the seismicity in shale? Insights from a controlled experiment of fluid-induced fault reactivation

(2016) Louis De Barros et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-SOLID EARTH

Evaluation of fault-slip potential due to shearing of fault asperities

(2015) Atsushi Sainoki et al.   CANADIAN GEOTECHNICAL JOURNAL

Strain localization and the onset of dynamic weakening in calcite fault gouge

(2015) S.A.F. Smith et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Velocity- and slip-dependent weakening in simulated fault gouge: Implications for multimode fault slip

(2015) Yoshihiro Ito et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Slip-pulse rupture behavior on a 2 m granite fault

(2015) Gregory C. McLaskey et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Scale dependence of rock friction at high work rate

(2015) Futoshi Yamashita et al.   NATURE

Phase transformation and nanometric flow cause extreme weakening during fault slip

(2015) H. W. Green II et al.   Nature Geoscience

Seismicity triggered by fluid injection-induced aseismic slip

(2015) Y. Guglielmi et al.   SCIENCE

Normal fault earthquakes or graviquakes

(2015) C. Doglioni et al.   Scientific Reports

Fault on-off versus strain rate and earthquakes energy

(2015) C. Doglioni et al.   Geoscience Frontiers

In situ observations on the coupling between hydraulic diffusivity and displacements during fault reactivation in shales

(2015) Yves Guglielmi et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-SOLID EARTH

Clast-cortex aggregates in experimental and natural calcite-bearing fault zones

(2014) Marieke Rempe et al.   JOURNAL OF STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY

Classical shear cracks drive the onset of dry frictional motion

(2014) Ilya Svetlizky et al.   NATURE

Volcanic drumbeat seismicity caused by stick-slip motion and magmatic frictional melting

(2014) J. E. Kendrick et al.   Nature Geoscience

Structural control on the Tohoku earthquake rupture process investigated by 3D FEM, tsunami and geodetic data

(2014) F. Romano et al.   Scientific Reports

Physicochemical processes of frictional healing: Effects of water on stick-slip stress drop and friction of granular fault gouge

(2014) Marco M. Scuderi et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-SOLID EARTH

On the origin and evolution of electrical signals during frictional stick slip in sheared granular material

(2014) J. R. Leeman et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-SOLID EARTH

Frictional properties and slip stability of active faults within carbonate–evaporite sequences: The role of dolomite and anhydrite

(2013) Marco M. Scuderi et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

The effect of tectonic environment on permeability development around faults and in the brittle crust

(2013) D.R. Faulkner et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Potentially induced earthquakes in Oklahoma, USA: Links between wastewater injection and the 2011 Mw 5.7 earthquake sequence

(2013) Katie M. Keranen et al.   GEOLOGY

Acoustic emission and microslip precursors to stick-slip failure in sheared granular material

(2013) P. A. Johnson et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Field Measurements and Numerical Simulation of Debris Flows from Dolomite Slopes Destabilized during the 2005 Kashmir Earthquake, Pakistan

(2013) Zaheer Abbas Kazmi et al.   JOURNAL OF EARTHQUAKE ENGINEERING

Slip weakening as a mechanism for slow earthquakes

(2013) Matt J. Ikari et al.   Nature Geoscience

Deep-Focus Earthquake Analogs Recorded at High Pressure and Temperature in the Laboratory

(2013) A. Schubnel et al.   SCIENCE

Structure and Composition of the Plate-Boundary Slip Zone for the 2011 Tohoku-Oki Earthquake

(2013) F. M. Chester et al.   SCIENCE

Slow Earthquakes, Preseismic Velocity Changes, and the Origin of Slow Frictional Stick-Slip

(2013) B. M. Kaproth et al.   SCIENCE

Low Coseismic Shear Stress on the Tohoku-Oki Megathrust Determined from Laboratory Experiments

(2013) K. Ujiie et al.   SCIENCE

Low Coseismic Friction on the Tohoku-Oki Fault Determined from Temperature Measurements

(2013) P. M. Fulton et al.   SCIENCE

Modification of the discontinuous deformation analysis method and its application to seismic response analysis of large underground caverns

(2013) Yonghui Zhang et al.   TUNNELLING AND UNDERGROUND SPACE TECHNOLOGY

Graphite as a lubricating agent in fault zones: An insight from low- to high-velocity friction experiments on a mixed graphite-quartz gouge

(2013) Kiyokazu Oohashi et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-SOLID EARTH

Influence of pore-pressure on the event-size distribution of induced earthquakes

(2012) C. E. Bachmann et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

‘Melt welt’ mechanism of extreme weakening of gabbro at seismic slip rates

(2012) Kevin M. Brown et al.   NATURE

The 2011 Lorca earthquake slip distribution controlled by groundwater crustal unloading

(2012) Pablo J. González et al.   Nature Geoscience

Under the Hood of the Earthquake Machine: Toward Predictive Modeling of the Seismic Cycle

(2012) S. Barbot et al.   SCIENCE

Fault structure, frictional properties and mixed-mode fault slip behavior

(2011) Cristiano Collettini et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Syndeformational antigorite dehydration produces stable fault slip

(2011) Linda J. Chernak et al.   GEOLOGY

Cohesive strength of clay-rich sediment

(2011) Matt J. Ikari et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

The role of fault zone fabric and lithification state on frictional strength, constitutive behavior, and deformation microstructure

(2011) Matt J. Ikari et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH

Experimental investigation of the influence of slip velocity and temperature on permeability during and after high-velocity fault slip

(2011) Wataru Tanikawa et al.   JOURNAL OF STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY

Fault lubrication during earthquakes

(2011) G. Di Toro et al.   NATURE

Frictional Properties of Sedimentary Rocks and Natural Fault Gouge from the Longmen Shan Fault Zone, Sichuan, China

(2010) B. A. Verberne et al.   BULLETIN OF THE SEISMOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA

Deformation of antigorite serpentinite at high temperature and pressure

(2010) Linda J. Chernak et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Fabric induced weakness of tectonic faults

(2010) André Niemeijer et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Frictional strength and strain weakening in simulated fault gouge: Competition between geometrical weakening and chemical strengthening

(2010) André Niemeijer et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH

Triggering of New Madrid seismicity by late-Pleistocene erosion

(2010) E. Calais et al.   NATURE

Slip-stick and the evolution of frictional strength

(2010) Oded Ben-David et al.   NATURE

Shear veins observed within anisotropic fabric at high angles to the maximum compressive stress

(2010) Åke Fagereng et al.   Nature Geoscience

An integrated perspective of the continuum between earthquakes and slow-slip phenomena

(2010) Zhigang Peng et al.   Nature Geoscience

Experimental observation of stick-slip instability fronts

(2009) S. Nielsen et al.   GEOPHYSICAL JOURNAL INTERNATIONAL

Frictional and hydrologic properties of clay-rich fault gouge

(2009) Matt J. Ikari et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH

Shear-induced dilatancy of fluid-saturated faults: Experiment and theory

(2009) Jon Samuelson et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH

Fault zone fabric and fault weakness

(2009) Cristiano Collettini et al.   NATURE

High-velocity frictional behavior and microstructure evolution of fault gouge obtained from Nojima fault, southwest Japan

(2009) Kazuo Mizoguchi et al.   TECTONOPHYSICS

Monitoring frictional strength with acoustic wave transmission

(2008) Kohei Nagata et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

GEOPHYSICS: What Triggers Tremor?

(2008) E. Richardson et al.   SCIENCE