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Published May 1986 | Published
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Rupture Process of Subduction-Zone Earthquakes

Abstract

This review is primarily concerned with the rupture process of large subduction-zone earthquakes determined by various seismological methods, and with its interpretation in terms of an asperity model. It is not possible to make a thorough and extensive review on the subject because of the limited length. Consequently, this review is inevitably biased toward the works in which I was directly involved through collaborations with various investigators. The distribution of large earthquakes along subduction zones has a distinct pattern. Great earthquakes occur in South America, Alaska, the Aleutians, and Kamchatka. In contrast, earthquakes along the Marianas are smaller. The seismicity in other subduction zones is intermediate between these two groups (see Figure 1). Although this regional variation now generally accepted, it was not until an appropriate method for quantification of large earthquakes was developed that the regional variation was clearly recognized. In view of its fundamental importance in seismology, we first review the quantification method.

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"Reprinted, with permission, from the Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Volume 14 copyright 1986 by Annual Reviews, www.annualreviews.org" I thank Luciana Astiz and Holly Eissler for reviewing the manuscript. Larry Ruff provided me with some figures before publication. This work was partially supported by the National Science Foundation under grant EAR-8116023 and the US Geological Survey under contract 14-08-0001-G-979. This article is contribution No. 4252 of the Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences.

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