Deep learning of aftershock patterns following large earthquakes.

Aftershocks are a response to changes in stress generated by large earthquakes and represent the most common observations of the triggering of earthquakes. The maximum magnitude of aftershocks and their temporal decay are well described by empirical laws (such as Bath's law and Omori's law), but explaining and forecasting the spatial distribution of aftershocks is more difficult. Coulomb failure stress change is perhaps the most widely used criterion to explain the spatial distributions of aftershocks, but its applicability has been disputed.

Intermittent Granular Dynamics at a Seismogenic Plate Boundary.

Earthquakes at seismogenic plate boundaries are a response to the differential motions of tectonic blocks embedded within a geometrically complex network of branching and coalescing faults. Elastic strain is accumulated at a slow strain rate on the order of 10^{-15}  s^{-1}, and released intermittently at intervals >100  yr, in the form of rapid (seconds to minutes) coseismic ruptures. The development of macroscopic models of quasistatic planar tectonic dynamics at these plate boundaries has remained challenging due to uncertainty with regard to the spatial and kinematic complexity of fault system behaviors.