Home
> Research & Observation
> Research projects
> European projects
> DEEP-trigger: Preparation of Subduction Earthquakes: Slow, Deep, Large-scale trigger
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.