The alien shaped a fissure in the flat ground into a rupture on a hillock, and he humped Mother Earth, yielding seed.
We nucleate a dynamic rupture on a thrust fault that intersects the seafloor at the trench.
The previous earthquake on this plate interface is thought to have occurred in 1703 and to have ruptured on a fault extending further to the east-southeast.
We herein describe our numerical simulation of spontaneous shear rupture on a planar fault in a three-dimensional (3D) uniform elastic medium using the FE method.
The problems include dynamic rupture along an interface separating different elastic solids, dynamic rupture on a planar surface governed by strongly velocity-weakening friction, and elastodynamic calculations of long deformation history on a smooth fault in an elastic continuum.
The back-propagating slip front emerging from the interaction of dynamic rupture on a dipping fault and the free surface might have contributed to the reactivation of the Tohoku-Oki earthquake rupture at about 100 s.
We show that this is a key concept in understanding the Tohoku Earthquake by presenting dynamic models which start from rupture on a medium patch and which then migrates into a larger patch.
The Wenchuan earthquake of 12 May 2008 (magnitude 7.9) occurred at 06:28:01 UT as the result of rupture on a northeast striking reverse fault in the northwestern margin of the Sichuan Basin, China.
Numerical simulations of spontaneous shear rupture on a planar fault using a slip-weakening model in a three-dimensional uniform elastic medium were conducted using a parallel FE code, GeoFEM, which was originally developed for the solid-Earth simulations on the Earth Simulator.
