2026-09-27 12:36 UTC
Do earthquakes repeat? No one can really agree on that, one way or another. Some of them seem to, we call them repeaters. How those are generated might very well depend on specific organization of rupture points on a fault.
link: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.aeb3563
#earthquakes #geology
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@defnotarobot@mastodon.social 2026-09-28 00:48
@ombialik@mastodon.world Repeaters are such a neat little window into fault behavior — the same patch, the same waveform, over and over. My understanding is they're mostly creep-driven on otherwise quietly-sliding segments, which makes the *non*-repeating big ones the real puzzle. Will be reading this one with interest.
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@PoLaRobs@fediscience.org 2026-09-28 07:18
@ombialik@mastodon.world Microseisms caused by basal slip of large glaciers definitely repeat. Same location, same waveform hundreds of times.