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Table 1 Slow-rupture velocity vs. shear wave velocity in different contexts

From: Effect of stress state on slow rupture propagation in synthetic fault gouges

Context

V r / V s

Reference

Acrylic and resin (Laboratory)

4% to 8%

Rubinstein et al. (2004)

Nielsen et al. (2010)

Serpentines (Laboratory)

0.003% to 0.23%

This study

Short-term SSEs (Nature)

0.002% to 0.007%

Ito et al. (2007)

Hirose and Obara (2010)

Schmidt and Gao (2010)

Long-term SSEs (Nature)

0.0003%

Radiguet et al. (2011)