Near-surface softening and healing in eastern Honshu associated with the 2011 magnitude-9 Tohoku-Oki Earthquake

oleh: Su-Yang Wang, Hai-Yang Zhuang, Hao Zhang, Hong-Jun He, Wei-Ping Jiang, Er-Lei Yao, Bin Ruan, Yong-Xin Wu, Yu Miao

Format: Article
Diterbitkan: Nature Portfolio 2021-02-01

Deskripsi

The authors here investigate the stiffness reduction of solid geomaterials during earthquakes via combining field, experimental and numerical data. The study shows multiple metastable contacts at small surface separations below a few diameters of a water molecule due to the oscillatory hydration interaction.