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Back-propagating super-shear rupture in the 2016 Mw7.1 Romanche transform fault earthquake
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Abstract
How an earthquake rupture propagates strongly influences potentially destructive ground shaking. Complex ruptures often involve slip along multiple faults, masking information on the frictional behaviour of fault zones. Geometrically smooth ocean transform fault plate boundaries offer a favourable environment to study fault dynamics, because strain is accommodated along a single, wide fault zone that offsets homogeneous geology. Here we present an analysis of the 2016 M7.1 earthquake on the Romanche fracture zone in the equatorial Atlantic, using data from both nearby seafloor seismometers and global seismic networks. We show that this ruptur... more
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https://doi.org/10.31223/osf.io/bs7na
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Earth Sciences, Geophysics and Seismology, Physical Sciences and Mathematics, Tectonics and Structure
Keywords
Seismology, earthquake, Transform faults
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Published: 2019-12-26 01:27
Last Updated: 2019-12-30 10:15
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