Author: citrikgirl

Fault zone head waves (FZHW) are seismic waves that travel along the boundary between two rock bodies with different speeds. They can reveal contrasts in fault-zone structure that are hard to see with other methods. In a recent paper we

Earthquake rupture directivity is an important component of the earthquake source, and it also provides insights for seismic hazard and risk assessments in urban areas. In a recent study authored by Xiang CHEN, we employed seismic waveform modelling and empirical

The earthquake stress drop is a key parameter that represents the difference in stress levels on a fault before and after an earthquake. Calculating it is important to understand the energy released during earthquakes, understand the physics of the earthquake

A new paper titled “Evolution of Shear Rupture Along a Prescribed Interface Using the Discontinuous Deformation Analysis Method” has been published. You can access it here.

This paper had in our workplace an ironic codename “Neverending paper” – the story of this paper starts already in 2016. And finally, our study entitled “Intermittent criticality multi-scale preparatory processes leading to large slip events on rough laboratory faults

It all started about 4 years ago, during the pandemic, when we started discussing different studies on pre-seismic observations and we realized that we were both working in the field but basically reading different sets of observational papers and understanding

On February 6th, 2023, the devastating magnitude MW 7.8 Kahramanmaraş earthquake in South East Türkiye ruptured multiple fault segments of the East Anatolian Fault Zone separating the Anatolian and Arabian tectonic plates. This earthquake and its aftershock sequence was followed by a

We have a new publication on our main findings from our studies at The Geysers geothermal field and how the evolution of seismic injection efficiency can be an effective proxy to monitor seismic hazard and probability of a reservoir to

We just recently published our new study with Virginie Durand as first author, where we investigated the seismicity preceding the occurrence of a M 5.7 event in the Marmara Sea that was widely felt offshore Istanbul. The study has been

If you’re interested in how the Earth’s crust around Istanbul in Turkey is shaped by both the ancient processes that formed the country and the present day forces that continue to deform it, then have a look at the recent