Slow Slip Simulation (IMAGE)

Stanford's School of Earth, Energy & Environmental Sciences

Slow Slip Simulation

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This simulation displays a slow slip event, or slow-moving earthquake. The colors show the rate of sliding across the fault. New simulations like this created by Stanford researchers have many features in common with the slow slip process captured by GPS measurements and may explain these tectonic events.

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Elias Heimisson

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