DEEP-trigger: Preparation of Subduction Earthquakes: Slow, Deep, Large-scale trigger

The DEEP-trigger project

Subduction zones host the world’s largest earthquakes and tsunamis. Understanding how such earthquakes initiate and interact is a first-order challenge in earth sciences.

The objectives of the DEEPtrigger project is to study subduction zones recently affected by megathrust events or earthquakes sequences, with an enlarged perspective, considering the mechanisms of deformation in the larger subduction system, including the slab, and their potential role in pushing the megathrust to failure.

See also the project website.