Earthquakes are mechanical instabilities in the brittle lithosphere produced by the progressive accumulation of stress in the crust over centuries. The more extended the fractures, …
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The impact of faulting complexity and type on earthquake rupture dynamics
We analysed the earthquake double-couple as a function of the faulting type. Here we show that it impacts the moment tensors of earthquakes: thrust-faulting events are characterized by higher double-couple components with respect to strike-slip- and normal-faulting earthquakes.
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