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slow slip event: a standalone construct

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slow slipevent1 CONSTRUCTSlow slip eventDRAGERT · SILENT SLIP

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Seismology / geodesy

A fault slips too slowly to shake the ground

A slow slip event is an episode in which a fault slips by a measurable amount but so gradually (over days to months rather than seconds) that it radiates little or no felt shaking, releasing strain quietly instead of in an ordinary earthquake. Dragert, Wang, and James's 2001 A silent slip event on the deeper Cascadia subduction interface detected one as a transient reversal in continuous GPS records along the subduction zone. The referent is a quiet fault-slip transient, often paired with tectonic tremor, measured by surface deformation rather than by strong seismic waves.[1]

Unit
The amount and duration of aseismic fault slip, as surface displacement
Recovery means
Not applicable
Measured by
Detected from transient offsets in continuous GPS/geodetic time series, often jointly with accompanying tectonic tremor

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References

  1. Dragert, H., Wang, K., & James, T. S. (2001). A silent slip event on the deeper Cascadia subduction interface. Science, 292(5521), 1525–1528. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1060152

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