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Fig. 1

From: Fully dynamic earthquake sequence simulation of a fault in a viscoelastic medium using a spectral boundary integral equation method: does interseismic stress relaxation promote aseismic transients?

Fig. 1

Antiplane model studied in this study. A planar fault (\(y = 0\)) is embedded in a Maxwell-viscoelastic material. A rate-weakening patch of a length of 2R = 1 km (a brown region) is surrounded by a rate-strengthening region (a yellow region), and periodic boundaries are set approximately every \(4R\) as indicated by a gray bracket. Slip (blue arrows) and shear traction (red arrows) are in the \(z\)-direction

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