Fig. 9

Number of peaks per time step, averaged over 50 time steps, from the 15 simulations. In a and b, peaks in \(\dot{M}_{0}\) (corresponding to the red points in Fig. 7) and in the local slip rate (blue points in Fig. 7, selected for a peak rate higher than 0.02 m/\(\Delta t\)) are shown, respectively, as a function of time step. The bold colored curves are the average values for all the simulations