Articles | Volume 23, issue 6
https://doi.org/10.5194/npg-23-419-2016
https://doi.org/10.5194/npg-23-419-2016
Research article
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16 Nov 2016
Research article |  | 16 Nov 2016

Conditions for the occurrence of seismic sequences in a fault system

Michele Dragoni and Emanuele Lorenzano

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We devise a model of a fault system and study the conditions under which it can generate a sequence of seismic events. We also point out the conditions determining the order of the events in a sequence. A significant conclusion of our analysis is that the features of seismic sequences originated by a given fault system (order of events, duration of the sequence, duration of interseismic intervals) typically change from one sequence to another, due to the complexity of fault interaction.