Bao-Ning Wu

Quantifying the Effects of the Value of Absolute Friction and Geometrical Symmetry on Dip-Slip Faults

Many earthquake models assume a symmetric fault for which the normal stress does not change over the course of the earthquake process, the results of which are insensitive to the absolute values of the frictional coefficients. However, a break in geometrical symmetry will generally lead to a more complex rupture proc...