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Publications
- Papers recently submitted / in review
- Papers published / in press in peer reviewed journals
- Extended abstracts in proceedings
- Ph. D. dissertation
- Work in progress (abstracts, posters, slides)
Submitted / in review:
S. Xu, Y. Ben-Zion and J.-P. Ampuero
Properties of Inelastic Yielding Zones Generated by In-plane Dynamic Ruptures: I. Model description and basic results
Submitted to Geophys. J. Int.
S. Xu, Y. Ben-Zion and J.-P. Ampuero
Properties of Inelastic Yielding Zones Generated by In-plane Dynamic Ruptures: II. Detailed parameter-space study
Submitted to Geophys. J. Int.
A. A. Gabriel, J.-P. Ampuero, L. A. Dalguer and P. M. Mai
The transition of dynamic rupture styles in elastic media under velocity-weakening friction
Submitted to J. Geophys. Res.
Y. Huang, L. Meng and J.-P. Ampuero
A dynamic model of the frequency-dependent rupture process of the 2011 Tohoku-Oki earthquake
Submitted to Earth, Planets and Space, special issue "The 2011 Tohoku Earthquake"
L. Meng, J.-P. Ampuero, Y. Luo, W. Wu and S. Ni
Apparent frequency-dependent source properties induced by artifacts in teleseismic back-projection
Submitted to Earth, Planets and Space, special issue "The 2011 Tohoku Earthquake"
O. Lengline, J. E. Elkhoury, G. Daniel, J. Schmittbuhl, R. Toussaint, J.-P. Ampuero and M. Bouchon
Interplay of seismic and aseismic deformations during earthquake swarms: an experimental approach
Submitted to Earth Plan. Sci. Lett.
L. Meng, J.-P. Ampuero, A. Sladen and H. Rendon
High-resolution back-projection at regional distance: application to the Haiti M7.0 earthquake and comparisons with finite source studies
Submitted to J. Geophys. Res., revised version
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R. Michel, J.-P. Ampuero , J.-P. Avouac, N. Lapusta, S. Leprince, D.C. Redding and S. Somala
A Geostationary Optical Seismometer, Proof of Concept
Submitted to IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, revised version
Articles: (PDF=preprint, DOI=online article)
[33] C. Pelties, J. de la Puente, J.-P. Ampuero, G. Brietzke and M. Kaeser (2012)
Three-dimensional dynamic rupture simulation with a high-order Discontinuous Galerkin method on unstructured tetrahedral meshes
J. Geophys. Res., doi:10.1029/2011JB008857, in press
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[32] V. Tsai, B. Minchew, M. Lamb and J.-P. Ampuero (2012)
A physical model for seismic noise from sediment transport by rivers
Geophys. Res. Lett., 39, L02404, doi:10.1029/2011GL050255
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[31] Y. Huang and J.-P. Ampuero (2011)
Pulse-like ruptures induced by low-velocity fault zones
J. Geophys. Res., 116, B12307, doi:10.1029/2011JB008684
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[30] Y. Kaneko and J.-P. Ampuero (2011)
A mechanism for preseismic steady rupture fronts observed in laboratory experiments
Geophys. Res. Lett., 38, L21307, doi:10.1029/2011GL049953
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[29] T. Yamaguchi, M. Morishita, M. Doi, T. Hori, H. Sakaguchi and J.-P. Ampuero (2011)
Gutenberg-Richter's law in sliding friction of gels
J. Geophys. Res., 116, B12306, doi:10.1029/2011JB008415
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[28] O. Lengline, R. Toussaint, J. Schmittbuhl, J. Elkhoury, J.-P. Ampuero , K. T. Tallakstad, S. Santucci and K. J. Maloy (2011)
Average crack-front velocity during subcritical fracture propagation in a heterogeneous medium
Phys. Rev. E, 84, 036104
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[27] L. Meng, A. Inbal and J.-P. Ampuero (2011)
A window into the complexity of the dynamic rupture of the 2011 Mw 9 Tohoku-Oki earthquake
Geophys. Res. Let., 38, L00G07, doi:10.1029/2011GL048118
DOI PDF Auxiliary material Animation S1 Animation S2
[26] Y Kaneko, J.-P. Ampuero and N. Lapusta (2011)
Spectral-element simulations of long-term fault slip: Effect of low-rigidity layers on earthquake-cycle dynamics
J. Geophys. Res., 116, B10313, doi:10.1029/2011JB008395
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[25] R. A. Harris et al. (2011)
Verifying a computational method for predicting extreme ground motion
Seis. Res. Let., 82 (5), 638-644, doi:10.1785/gssrl.82.5.638
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[24] O. Lengline, J. Schmittbuhl, J. E. Elkhoury, J.-P. Ampuero, R. Toussaint and K. J. Maloy (2011)
Downscaling of fracture energy during brittle creep experiments
J. Geophys. Res., 116, B08215, doi:10.1029/2010JB008059
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[23] M. Simons, S. E. Minson, A. Sladen, F. Ortega, J. Jiang, S. E. Owen, L. Meng, J.-P. Ampuero, S. Wei, R. Chu, D. V. Helmberger, H. Kanamori, E. Hetland, A. W. Moore, and F. H. Webb (2011)
The 2011 magnitude 9.0 Tohoku-Oki earthquake: mosaicking the megathrust from seconds to centuries
Science, 332, 1421-1425, doi:10.1126/science.1206731
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[22] K. Ariyoshi, T. Matsuzawa, J.-P. Ampuero, R. Nakata, T. Hori, Y. Kaneda, R. Hino and A. Hasegawa (2011)
Migration process of very low-frequency events based on a chain-reaction model and its application to the detection of preseismic slip for megathrust earthquakes
Earth, Planets and Space, in press, doi:10.5047/eps.2010.09.003
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[21] A. Rubin and J.-P. Ampuero (2009)
Self-similar slip pulses during rate-and-state earthquake nucleation.
J. Geophys. Res., 114, B11305, doi:10.1029/2009JB006529
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[20] Y. Ben-Zion and J.-P. Ampuero (2009)
Seismic radiation from regions sustaining material damage.
Geophys. J. Int., 178 (3), 1351-1356, doi:10.1111/j.1365-246X.2009.04285.x
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[19] J. De La Puente, J.-P. Ampuero and M. Kaeser (2009)
Dynamic rupture modeling on unstructured meshes using a discontinuous Galerkin method.
J. Geophys. Res., 114, B10302, doi:10.1029/2008JB006271
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[18] V. Lyakhovsky, Y. Hamiel, J.-P. Ampuero and Y. Ben-Zion (2009)
Nonlinear damage rheology and wave resonance in rocks.
Geophys. J. Int., 178 (2), 910-920, doi:10.1111/j.1365-246X.2009.04205.x
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[17] K. Ariyoshi, T. Hori, J.-P. Ampuero , Y. Kaneda, T. Matsuzawa, R. Hino and A. Hasegawa (2009)
Influence of interaction between small asperities on various types of slow earthquakes in a 3-D simulation for a subduction plate boundary.
Gondwana Research, 16 (3-4), 534-544, doi:10.1016/j.gr.2009.03.006
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[16] R. A. Harris et al. (2009)
The SCEC/USGS dynamic earthquake-rupture code verification exercise
Seism. Res. Lett., 80 (1), 119-126, doi:10.1785/gssrl.80.1.119
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[15] H. Perfettini and J.-P. Ampuero (2008)
Dynamics of a velocity strenghtening region: implications for slow earthquakes and postseismic slip
J. Geophys. Res., 113 (B9), B09411, doi:10.1029/2007JB005398
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[14] Y. Kaneko, N. Lapusta and J.-P. Ampuero (2008)
Spectral-element modeling of spontaneous earthquake rupture on rate and state faults: Effect of velocity-strengthening friction at shallow depths
J. Geophys. Res., 113 (B9), B09317, doi:10.1029/2007JB005553
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[13] J. Ripperger, P. M. Mai and J.-P. Ampuero (2008)
Variability of near-field ground motion from dynamic earthquake rupture simulations
Bull. Seism. Soc. Am., 98 (3), 1207-1228; doi:10.1785/0120070076
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[12] J.-P. Ampuero and Y. Ben-Zion (2008)
Cracks, pulses and macroscopic asymmetry of dynamic rupture on a bimaterial interface with velocity-weakening friction
Geophys. J. Int., 173 (2), 674-692, doi:10.1111/j.1365-246X.2008.03736.x
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[11] J.-P. Ampuero and A. M. Rubin (2008)
Earthquake nucleation on rate-and-state faults : aging and slip laws
J. Geophys. Res., 113, B01302, doi:10.1029/2007JB005082
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[10] M. Haney, R. Snieder, J.-P. Ampuero and R. Hofmann (2007)
Spectral element modeling of fault-plane reflections arising from fluid pressure distributions
Geophys. J. Int., 170 (2), 933-951, doi:10.1111/j.1365-246X.2007.03437.x
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[9] L. Boschi, J.-P. Ampuero, D. Peter, P. M. Mai, G. Soldati, D. Giardini (2007)
Petascale computing for future breakthroughs in global seismology
Phys. Earth Planet. Int., 163 (1-4), 245-250, doi:10.1016/j.pepi.2007.02.011
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[8] A. M. Rubin and J. P. Ampuero (2007)
Aftershock asymmetry on a bimaterial interface
J. Geophys. Res., 112, B05307, doi:10.1029/2006JB004337
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[7] J. Ripperger, J.-P. Ampuero, P. M. Mai and D. Giardini (2007)
Earthquake source characteristics from dynamic rupture with constrained stochastic fault stress
J. Geophys. Res., 112, B04311, doi:10.1029/2006JB004515
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[6] G. Hillers, P. M. Mai, Y. Ben-Zion and J.-P. Ampuero (2006)
Statistical properties of seismicity of fault zones at different evolutionary stages
Geophys. J. Int., 169 (2), 515-533. doi:10.1111/j.1365-246X.2006.03275.x
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[5] R. Madariaga, J.-P. Ampuero and M. Adda-Bedia (2006)
Seismic radiation from simple models of earthquakes
"Radiated Energy and the Physics of Earthquakes", AGU Monograph;
A. McGarr, R. Abercrombie, H. Kanamori and G. di Toro, Eds.
[4] J.-P. Ampuero, J. Ripperger and P. M. Mai (2006)
Properties of dynamic earthquake ruptures with heterogeneous stress drop
"Radiated Energy and the Physics of Earthquakes", AGU Monograph;
A. McGarr, R. Abercrombie, H. Kanamori and G. di Toro, Eds.
[3] A.M. Rubin and J.-P. Ampuero (2005)
Earthquake nucleation on (aging) rate-and-state faults
J. Geophys. Res., 110, B11312, doi:10.1029/2005JB003686
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[2] J.-P. Ampuero and F.A. Dahlen (2005)
Ambiguity of the moment tensor.
Bull. Seism. Soc. Am., 95 (2), 390-400, doi:10.1785/0120040103
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[1] J.-P. Ampuero, J.-P. Vilotte and F.-J. Sánchez-Sesma (2002)
Nucleation of rupture under slip dependent friction law: simple models of fault zone.
J. Geophys. Res., 107 (B12), 2324, doi:10.1029/2001JB000452
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In proceedings:
P. M. Mai, J. Ripperger, J.-P. Ampuero and G. Hillers (2006)
Frontiers in Source Modeling for Near-Source Ground-Motion Prediction
Third International Symposium on the Effects of Surface Geology on Seismic Motion, Grenoble 30.8 - 1.9. 2006
(edited by P.-Y. Bard, E. Chaljub, C. Cornou, F. Cotton, P. Guegen), pp. 97 - 114.
P. Moczo, J.-P. Ampuero , J. Kristek, S. M. Day, M. Kristekova, P. Pazak, M. Galis, and H. Igel (2006)
Comparison of Numerical Methods for Seismic Wave Propagation and Source Dynamics - the SPICE Code Validation
Third International Symposium on the Effects of Surface Geology on Seismic Motion, Grenoble 30.8 - 1.9. 2006
(edited by P.-Y. Bard, E. Chaljub, C. Cornou, F. Cotton, P. Guegen), pp. 495 - 504.
J.-P. Ampuero
Effects of non-linear weakening on earthquake source scalings.
Extended abstract for the 11th International Conference on Fracture, Turin 2005
Ph.D. dissertation: (in French)
J.-P. Ampuero (Université Paris VII, October 2002)
Etude physique et numérique de la nucléation des séismes
A physical and numerical study of earthquake nucleation
.ps.gz Table des matières, avant-propos, remerciements.
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Chapitre 1: Introduction
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Chapitre 2: Nucléation quasi-statique (localisation, bifurcations ...)
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Chapitre 3: Nucléation dynamique et observables sismologiques
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Chapitre 4: Rupture dynamique et Elements Spectraux
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Conclusions, bibliographie, résumé.
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Some work in progress: (with links to conference abstracts)
P. Galvez, J.-P. Ampuero, L. A. Dalguer and T. F. Nisse-Meyer
Dynamic rupture modeling of the 2011 Mw9 Tohoku-Oki earthquake with an unstructured 3D spectral element method
AGU 2011 poster
J.-P. Ampuero, Y. Luo, H. Perfettini, H. Houston and B. Delbridge
A hierarchy of tremor migration patterns induced by the interaction of brittle asperities mediated by aseismic slip transients
Slides presented at the EarthScope Institute on the Spectrum of Fault Slip Behaviors (2010)
SCEC 2011 poster
J.-P. Ampuero, Y. Ben-Zion and V. Lyakhovsky
Interaction between dynamic rupture and off-fault continuum damage
SSA 2008 poster
J.-P. Ampuero and T. Nissen-Meyer.
Dispersion properties of spectral elements for wave propagation and high order time-stepping algorithms
AGU 2006 abstract
J.-P. Ampuero and A. M. Rubin.
Properties of immediate aftershocks at Parkfield and their relation to rupture dynamics in bimaterial interfaces
AGU 2004 abstract
G. Festa, J.-P. Ampuero and J.-P. Vilotte.
The spectral element method for earthquake rupture dynamics
AGU 2006 abstract, preliminary draft with implementation details
V. Rocabado, J.-P. Ampuero, M. Schmitz, J.-P. Vilotte, M. Sobiesiak, F. Audemard and H. Rendón.
Seismicity, earthquake scenarios and seismic response for the Caracas sedimentary basin, Venezuela
EGU 2005 abstract
J.-P. Ampuero and J.-P. Vilotte
Insights on fault friction from the shape of some seismic nucleation phases: scale-dependent or non-linear friction ?
EGS 2003 abstract, slideshow
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