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Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

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A Volcanic Boom Puts the Squeeze on Remote Confined Aquifers

by Douglas R. Schmitt 28 July 202523 July 2025

A new study shows that ground water levels responded to forcing by barometric pressure pulses from the 2022 Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai Volcanic Eruption.

A cracked and deformed rupture in the Earth's surface with a truck in the background.
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New Insights into How Rocks Behave Under Stress

by Yves Bernabé 22 July 202522 July 2025

New 3D imaging techniques show hidden patterns of stress that help explain how and why rocks break.

Images and diagrams of nano-scale cavities.
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Creep Cavitation May Lead to Earthquake Nucleation

by Alexandre Schubnel 22 May 202521 May 2025

Ultramylonites, rocks of ultrafine grainsize, bring records of nanometer-scale cavities generated at the base of seismogenic crust along Japan’s largest on‐land fault.

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Atomic-Scale Insights into Supercritical Silicate Fluids

by Jun Tsuchiya 30 April 202529 April 2025

Water-induced depolymerization enhances fluid mobility in deep Earth, offering new insights into magma transport and isotope signatures in arc lavas.

Seismic images from the study.
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Seismic Images Show Major Change Along the Mid-Atlantic Ridge

by Andrew Frederiksen 7 April 20253 April 2025

New seismic images of the Lucky Strike slow-spreading segment of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge show thick lower crust at the center that thins in both along-ridge directions.

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Remagnetization Illuminates Tectonic Consolidation of Megacontinents

by Agnes Kontny 31 March 202527 March 2025

New rock and paleomagnetic research give evidence for prolonged heating during the Cambrian-Ordovician tectonic consolidation of West Gondwanaland.

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T-waves May Improve Tsunami Early Warning Systems

by Han Yue 17 February 20257 February 2025

A unique acoustic wave related to the generation of tsunamis could be used to enhance early warning systems.

Cracked and uplifted earth at a fault zone on a vineyard.
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Slow But Powerful Fault Slip Can Simply Arise from Fluid Flow

by Yihe Huang 15 January 202514 January 2025

Cyclic changes of fluid pressure in fault zones can induce slow-slip events that advance in the direction of fluid flow, even when the faults are stable.

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Rewinding the Fault: Stress Perturbations Promote Back-Propagating Ruptures

by Yajing Liu 20 December 202419 December 2024

Free surface reflection and fault geometric asperities can excite backward propagation in the form of an interface wave or high-order re-rupture.

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Diverse Seismic Response in Hectometer-Scale Fracture System

by Xiaowei Chen 17 December 202417 December 2024

An underground experiment with multi-stage stimulations reveals diverse seismic responses within a complex hectometer-scale fracture network, shedding light on induced seismicity behaviors at field scale.

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