... to the reported SSEs can be synchronous with the repeated earthquakes, suggesting that the peaks may also be associated with unknown SSEs ( Takagi et al. , 2019a ). Especially those peaks after the M 9.0 Tohoku‐Oki earthquake are likely be related with postseismic creeps ( Uchida et al. , 2016...

..., 2011 ) have lower friction coefficients that may dominate in certain creeping faults, but are unlikely to be abundant and widespread enough to control crustal friction in all the continents. Dieterich (1978 , 1979 , 1981) extended Mohr–Coulomb theory to create “rate and state friction” theory...

... periodic rainfall infiltration. This paper proposes a rheological model consisting of a Hooke elastomer, Kelvin body and novel plastic element in series (called the HKP model) to describe the creep response of rocks considering the characteristics of dry–wet cycles. First, dry–wet cycle creep tests were...

...Reynold E. Silber; Jennifer Girard; Haiyan Chen; Shun-ichiro Karato Abstract This study investigates the effect of pressure on diffusion creep of dry San Carlos and synthetic (prepared by sol-gel method) olivine. We prepared dry (water content < 9 ppm wt) fine-grained (< 1 μm grain-size...

... of composite salt formation in view of the problem of frequent accidents in the drilling process. In this article, the creep parameters based on the constitutive equation of creep of salt rock are obtained by combining theoretical with experimental research. A three-dimensional directional wellbore mechanical...

...Huaichang Yu; Zirui Wang; Zhuoran Wang; Zhongyu Zhang Abstract Creep and acoustic emission tests were conducted under uniaxial compression on sandstone samples with no (i.e. intact), one and two prefabricated fractures collected from the Xiaolangdi Reservoir area using a RLJW-2000 rock...

.... The value R then is simply S/P . If significant amounts of strain are released aseismically through creep, then the creep rate ( C ) can be included so the denominator becomes P − C . We assume that all large earthquakes along a specific fault have the same R value, but GLTFM allows different R...

... stepover and (c) the tensile stepover. The fault has a seismogenic velocity weakening (VW) patch and a stably creeping velocity strengthen (VS) patch. Plate loading rate of 10 − 9    m / s is applied on the side end of each fault. Stepover is formed by two parallel right‐lateral faults...

.... Furthermore, it is assumed that a fraction between 0% and 100% of the average seismic moment is released seismically, and the remaining part corresponds to aseismic processes such as creep. The model extends former renewal models of Matthews et al. (2002) and Zöller et al. (2008) . Results for different...

... instead identify the rupture with the magnitude nearest to (but not below) M  6 on each subsection of the Parkfield section and constrain those to match the Parkfield rate, regardless of the length of the rupture (length depends on the choice of scaling relationship as well as creep‐related area...

... Inversion‐based fault system solutions Defining the rupture set Treatment of fault creep Scaling relationships Slip‐rate and paleoseismic event‐rate matching Target MFDs and b ‐value branches Segmentation constraints Some implementation details Model nonuniqueness...