Can the Nucleation Phase be Generated on a Sub-fault Linked to the Main Fault of an Earthquake?
Jeen-Hwa Wang
Abstract:Abstract. We study the effects of seismic coupling, friction, viscous, and inertia on earthquake nucleation based on a two-body spring-slider model in the presence of thermal-pressurized slip-dependent friction and viscosity. The stiffness ratio of the system to represent seismic coupling is the ratio of coil spring K between two sliders and the leaf spring L between a slider and the background plate and denoted by s = K/L. The s is not a significant factor in generating the nucleation phase. The masses of the… Show more
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