Mechanics of Earthquake Faulting

A. Bizzarri, S. Das, A. Petri, Andrea Bizzarri, Shamita Das, Alberto Petri

• Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd
• Year: 2019
• Print ISBN:
  9781614999782
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9781614999799
• Topic: Physical Sciences
• Subtopic: Physics
• Index: Physics

The mechanics of earthquake faulting is a multi-disciplinary scientific approach combining laboratory inferences and mathematical models with the analysis of recorded data from earthquakes, and is essential to the understanding of these potentially destructive events. The modern field of study can be said to have begun with the seminal papers by B. V. Kostrov in 1964 and 1966. This book presents lectures delivered at the summer school 'The Mechanics of Earthquake Faulting', held under the umbrella of the Enrico Fermi International School of Physics in Varenna, Italy, from 2 to 7 July 2018. The school was attended by speakers and participants from many countries. One of the most important goals of the school was to present the state-of-the-art of the physics of earthquakes, and the 10 lectures included here cover the most challenging aspects of the mechanics of faulting. The topics covered during the school give a very clear picture of the current state of the art of the physics of earthquake ruptures and also highlight the open issues and questions that are still under debate, and the book will be of interest to all those working in the field.

Table of contents

• Title Page
• Contents
• Preface
• Course group shot
• The mechanics of supershear earthquake ruptures
• Unusual large earthquakes on oceanic transform faults
• The evolution of fault slip rate prior to earthquake: The role of slow- and fast-slip modes
• The spectrum of fault slip modes from elastodynamic rupture to slow earthquakes
• From foreshocks to mainshocks: mechanisms and implications for earthquake nucleation and rupture propagation
• Experimental statistics and stochastic modeling of stick-slip dynamics in a sheared granular fault
• Inversion of earthquake rupture process: Theory and applications
• Do plates begin to slip before some large earthquakes?
• Dynamics and spectral properties of subduction earth-quakes
• Earthquake occurrence, recurrence, and hazard
• List of participants