Publications

Precursory Slow Slip and Foreshocks on Rough Faults

Foreshocks are not uncommon prior to large earthquakes, but their physical mechanism remains controversial. Two interpretations have …
Camilla Cattania, Paul Segall
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The Community Code Verification Exercise for Simulating Sequences of Earthquakes and Aseismic Slip (SEAS)

Numerical simulations of sequences of earthquakes and aseismic slip (SEAS) have made great progress over past decades to address …
Brittany A. Erickson, Junle Jiang, Michael Barall, Nadia Lapusta, Eric M. Dunham, Ruth Harris, Lauren S. Abrahams, Kali L. Allison, Jean-Paul Ampuero, Sylvain Barbot, Camilla Cattania, Ahmed Elbanna, Yuri Fialko, Benjamin Idini, Jeremy E. Kozdon, Valère Lambert, Yajing Liu, Yingdi Luo, Xiao Ma, Maricela Best McKay, Paul Segall, Pengcheng Shi, Martijn van den Ende, Meng Wei
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Improving Physics-Based Aftershock Forecasts during the 2016– 2017 Central Italy Earthquake Cascade

The 2016– 2017 Central Apennines earthquake sequence is a recent example of how damages from subsequent aftershocks can exceed those …
S. Mancini, M. Segou, M. J. Werner, C. Cattania
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Crack Models of Repeating Earthquakes Predict Observed Moment-Recurrence Scaling

Small repeating earthquakes are thought to represent rupture of isolated asperities loaded by surrounding creep. The observed scaling …
Camilla Cattania, Paul Segall
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Complex Earthquake Sequences on Simple Faults

While power law distributions in seismic moment and interevent times are ubiquitous in regional earthquake catalogs, the statistics of …
Camilla Cattania
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The Forecasting Skill of Physics-based Seismicity Models during the 2010–2012 Canterbury, New Zealand, Earthquake Sequence

The static coulomb stress hypothesis is a widely known physical mechanism for earthquake triggering and thus a prime candidate for …
Camilla Cattania, Maximilian J. Werner, Warner Marzocchi, Sebastian Hainzl, David Rhoades, Matthew Gerstenberger, Maria Liukis, William Savran, Annemarie Christophersen, Agnès Helmstetter, Abigail Jimenez, Sandy Steacy, Thomas H. Jordan
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Dynamic Triggering and Earthquake Swarms on East Pacific Rise Transform Faults

While dynamic earthquake triggering has been reported in several continental settings, offshore observations are rare. Oceanic …
Camilla Cattania, Jeffrey J. McGuire, John A. Collins
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Connecting Crustal Seismicity and Earthquake-Driven Stress Evolution in Southern California

Tectonic stress in the crust evolves during a seismic cycle, with slow stress accumulation over interseismic periods, episodic stress …
Fred F. Pollitz, Camilla Cattania
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A Nonplanar Slow Rupture Episode during the 2000 Miyakejima Dike Intrusion

Magmatic intrusions release extensional strain in the Earth’s crust upon availability of magma. Intrusions are typically …
Camilla Cattania, Eleonora Rivalta, Sebastian Hainzl, Luigi Passarelli, Yosuke Aoki
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A Parallel Code to Calculate Rate-State Seismicity Evolution Induced by Time Dependent, Heterogeneous Coulomb Stress Changes

The estimation of space and time-dependent earthquake probabilities, including aftershock sequences, has received increased attention …
C. Cattania, F. Khalid
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The Relationship between Afterslip and Aftershocks: A Study Based on Coulomb-Rate-and-State Models

The spatiotemporal clustering of earthquakes is a feature of medium- and short-term seismicity, indicating that earthquakes interact. …
Camilla Cattania, Sebastian Hainzl, Frank Roth, Lifeng Wang
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Propagation of Coulomb Stress Uncertainties in Physics-Based Aftershock Models

Stress transfer between earthquakes is recognized as a fundamental mechanism governing aftershock sequences. A common approach to …
Camilla Cattania, Sebastian Hainzl, Lifeng Wang, Frank Roth, Bogdan Enescu
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Testing Atmospheric and Tidal Earthquake Triggering at Mt. Hochstaufen, Germany

Seismicity closely related to hydrological impacts has been observed in several locations worldwide, particularly in intraplate areas …
S Hainzl, Y Ben-Zion, C Cattania, J Wassermann
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