Viscous flow of nano-granular materials lubricates faults during earthquake propagation.
Giacomo Pozzi1, Nicola De Paola2, Robert Holdsworth1, Stefan Bjorklund Nielsen1, Leon Bowen3 and Eddie Dempsey4, (1)University of Durham, Department of Earth Sciences, Durham, United Kingdom, (2)University of Durham, Department of Earth Sciences, Durham, DH1, United Kingdom, (3)University of Durham, Department of Physics, Durham, United Kingdom, (4)University of Hull, School of Environmental Sciences, Hull, United Kingdom