T015
Structure, Mechanics, and Hazards of Geometrically Complex Fault Systems
Structure, Mechanics, and Hazards of Geometrically Complex Fault Systems
Session ID#: 158573
Session Description:
Across many tectonic settings, major active fault systems commonly consist of multiple intersecting or neighboring faults. High-resolution observations from recent large earthquakes show that these events often rupture multiple fault segments and generate significant off-fault damage. Over a wide range of timescales, details of the mechanical interactions between segments in complex fault systems remain challenging to untangle. Nonetheless, these interactions appear to influence the seismic and tsunami hazards resulting from complex earthquake ruptures. This session will focus on new observations and models that illuminate how complex fault systems form and deform over geologic to coseismic timescales, and how complex faulting affects natural hazards for nearby communities. Submissions are encouraged from a broad range of disciplines including geology, geomorphology, seismology, geodesy, rock mechanics, and geodynamics, among others.
Co-Organized:
- G - Geodesy
- NH - Natural Hazards
- S - Seismology
Index Terms:
7230 Seismicity and tectonics [SEISMOLOGY]
8010 Fractures and faults [STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY]
8118 Dynamics and mechanics of faulting [TECTONOPHYSICS]
8123 Dynamics: seismotectonics [TECTONOPHYSICS]
Primary Convener: James Biemiller, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics, La Jolla, United States
Conveners: Alba Mar Rodriguez Padilla, University of California Davis, Earth and Planetary Sciences, Davis, United States, Roland Burgmann, Department of Earth and Planetary Science, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, United States and Alice-Agnes Gabriel, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Munich, Germany
Student/Early Career Convener: Alba Mar Rodriguez Padilla, University of California Davis, Earth and Planetary Sciences, Davis, United States
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