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  <dc:contributor>Joe B. Fletcher</dc:contributor>
  <dc:creator>Art McGarr</dc:creator>
  <dc:date>2003</dc:date>
  <dc:description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;The&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;maximum&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;slip&lt;span&gt;, observed or inferred, for a small patch within the larger&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;fault&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;zone&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;of an&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;earthquake&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;is a remarkably well-constrained function of the seismic moment. A large set of&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;maximum&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;slips, mostly derived from&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;slip&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;models of major earthquakes, indicate that this parameter increases according to the cube root of the seismic moment. Consistent with this finding, neither the average&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;slip&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;rate for the patches of&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;maximum&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;slip&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;nor the&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;apparent&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;stresses of earthquakes show any systematic dependence on seismic moment.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;Maximum&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;average&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;slip&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;rates are several meters per second independent of moment and, for earthquakes&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;in&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;continental crustal settings, the&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;apparent&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;stress&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;is limited to about 10 MPa. Results from&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;stick&lt;span&gt;-&lt;/span&gt;slip&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;friction&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;experiments&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;in&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;the laboratory, combined with information about the state of&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;stress&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;in&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;the crust, can be used to predict, quite closely, the&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;maximum&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;slips and&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;maximum&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;average&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;slip&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;rates within the&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;fault&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;zones&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;of major earthquakes as well as their&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;apparent&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;stresses. These findings suggest that&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;stick&lt;span&gt;-&lt;/span&gt;slip&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;friction&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;events observed&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;in&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;the laboratory and earthquakes&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;in&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;continental settings, even with large magnitudes, have similar rupture mechanisms.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</dc:description>
  <dc:format>application/pdf</dc:format>
  <dc:identifier>10.1785/0120030037</dc:identifier>
  <dc:language>en</dc:language>
  <dc:publisher>Seismological Society of America</dc:publisher>
  <dc:title>Maximum slip in earthquake fault zones, apparent stress, and stick-slip friction</dc:title>
  <dc:type>article</dc:type>
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