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Will Steinhardt
Postdoctoral Researcher, University of California Santa Cruz
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Precursory Locking Precedes Slip Events on Laboratory Fault
GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS
22 february 2025
Will Steinhardt, Emily E. Brodsky
Earthquakes occur through repeated cycles of locking and slip. What is the relationship between transiently locked patches and the size, location, ...
Precursory Locking Precedes Slip Events on Laboratory Fault: Untangling the Relative Roles of History and Geometry in Governing the Next Earthquake
FAULT COMPLEXITIES AND THEIR ROLE IN NUCLEATION AND RUPTURE PROPAGATION: INSIGHTS FROM THE LABORATORY, FIELD, AND MODELING II POSTER
seismology | 12 december 2024
Will Steinhardt, Emily E. Brodsky
Earthquake nucleation can involve locking or preslip. Both are influenced by geometry and slip history, and untangling the role of each can be difficu...
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The variability of stress and what to do about it
FRANCIS BIRCH LECTURE
tectonophysics | 11 december 2024
Emily E. Brodsky, Will Steinhardt, Gaspard Farge, ...
Stress is not uniform in the Earth. Even over relatively small volumes, pore pressure fluctuations, fault complexity, and lithological variations cons...
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Understanding the Relationship Between Precursory Locking, Earthquake Nucleation, Slip, and Asperities Using a Novel Laboratory Fault
RUPTURE AND DEFORMATION PROCESSES, FROM SLOW TO FAST AND FROM MICRO TO MACRO III POSTER
mineral and rock physics | 15 december 2023
Will Steinhardt, Emily E. Brodsky
The relationship between the nucleation behavior of an earthquake, the location of stress asperities, and the final, resultant event is a critical ele...
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First contact: defining contact asperities in the spatial structure of fault roughness
FRACTURE ROUGHNESS ANALYSIS AND INFLUENCE OF FAULT STRUCTURAL MATURITY ON EARTHQUAKE BEHAVIOR II ORAL
tectonophysics | 13 december 2023
James D. Kirkpatrick, Emily E. Brodsky, Will Stein...
Developing a comprehensive description of fault surface roughness is critical to understanding the physics of fault slip since surface roughness dicta...
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The Effect of Contact Area Distribution on the Frictional Properties of a Modeled Fault
CONTROL OF FAULT ZONE HETEROGENEITY AND FAULT ROUGHNESS ON MULTISCALE DEFORMATION AT INTER- AND INTRAPLATE FAULT ZONES II POSTER
tectonophysics | 13 december 2023
Jaiden Zak, Will Steinhardt, Emily E. Brodsky
Frictional strength is controlled by the total real area of contact between surfaces. This fundamental tenet has been in place since the work of Bowde...
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Seismological Stress Drops for Confined Ruptures Are Invariant to Normal Stress
EARTHQUAKE SOURCE CHARACTERIZATION AND FAULT ZONE PROPERTIES FROM MICROMETER TO KILOMETER SCALES II ORAL
seismology | 11 december 2023
Will Steinhardt, Sam Dillavou, Mary Agajanian, Shm...
Seismological stress drop, as inferred from a combination of seismic moment and rupture length, is a key parameter for assessing earthquakes and is of...
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Seismological Stress Drops for Confined Ruptures Are Invariant to Normal Stress
GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS
03 may 2023
Will Steinhardt, Sam Dillavou, Mary Agajanian, Shm...
Seismic moment and rupture length can be combined to infer stress drop, a key parameter for assessing earthquakes. In natural earthquakes, stress d...