suggest one possible scenario where the onset of fault motion is characterized by the transition from quasistatic slip growth to dynamic rupture propagation (Passelègue et al., 2016;Svetlizky et al., 2016). The transition happens when a region of critical size 𝐴𝐴 𝐴𝐴c of the fault is slipping. The knowledge of this nucleation length proves crucial since it allows to predict both the loading levels and the position at which the earthquake motion starts (Albertini et al., 2020;Ampuero et al., 2006;Uenishi & Rice, 2003).
Previous theoretical works linked𝐴𝐴 𝐴𝐴c to the frictional properties of the fault for linear slip-dependent (Campil-
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