New dynamic computer model gains greater insight into earthquake cycles
Thursday, May 10, 2012 - 13:00
in Earth & Climate
For those who study earthquakes, one major challenge has been trying to understand all the physics of a faultboth during an earthquake and at times of "rest"in order to know more about how a particular region may behave in the future. Now, researchers at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have developed the first computer model of an earthquake-producing fault segment that reproduces, in a single physical framework, the available observations of both the fault's seismic (fast) and aseismic (slow) behavior.