The Kinetics of the Seismic Cycle - Eos

Large earthquakes are necessarily punctuated by some degree of strength recovery, such as “fault healing”, but does quartz cementation during fluid-fault interactions facilitate that process?

Editors Voxis a blog from AGUs Publications Department. During an earthquake, the strength of a fault decreases dramatically and instantaneously. Afterwards the fault heals and regains its strength,… [+8557 chars]

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