The Mechanics of Earthquakes and Faulting

This essential reference for graduate students and researchers provides a unified treatment of earthquakes and faulting as two aspects of brittle tectonics at different timescales. The intimate connection between the two is manifested in their scaling laws and populations, which evolve from fracture growth and interactions between fractures. The connection between faults and the seismicity generated is governed by the rate and state dependent friction laws - producing distinctive seismic styles of faulting and a gamut of earthquake phenomena including aftershocks, afterslip, earthquake triggering, and slow slip events. The third edition of this classic treatise presents a wealth of new topics and new observations. These include slow earthquake phenomena
friction of phyllosilicates, and at high sliding velocities
fault structures
relative roles of strong and seismogenic versus weak and creeping faults
dynamic triggering of earthquakes
oceanic earthquakes
megathrust earthquakes in subduction zones
deep earthquakes
and new observations of earthquake precursory phenomena.