Earthquake nucleation: small signals from Big Data

• Main Author: Clement, Roseanne
• Other Authors: Main, Ian, Bell, Andrew, Chapman, Mark, Natural Environment Research Council (NERC)
• Format: Doctoral or Postdoctoral Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: The University of Edinburgh 2020
• Subjects: seismic datasets; group patterns; swarm sequence; swarm datasets; slow rock movement; seismic forecasting; Greenland; Iquique; Nuugaatsiaq
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/1842/37978; https://doi.org/10.7488/era/1249

Catastrophic failure events, such as earthquakes, volcanic eruptions and landslides, are linked by material failure processes. Seismicity and strain data can be used to track the failure processes that might be occurring before large events, and which may be used to provide forecasts of event magnit...