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Meade & Hager 2004
Meade, B.J. and Hager, B.H. (2004). Viscoelastic deformation for a clustered earthquake cycle. Geophysical Research Letters 31: doi: 10.1029/2004GL019643. issn: 0094-8276.

The clustering of earthquakes in time on the same fault affects the rate and pattern of interseismic deformation. We develop a simple analytic viscoelastic model of the surface velocity field through a clustered earthquake cycle by superposing the velocities of individual earthquake cycles of constant period but varying phase. Velocity profiles prior to and after an earthquake show a wider range of behavior than they do for earthquake cycles with constant repeat times. These new types of behavior provide possible explanations for discrepancies between geologic estimates of long-term fault slip rates and slip rate estimates from geodetic data.

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Tectonophysics, Dynamics, seismotectonics, Tectonophysics, Rheology—crust and lithosphere, Tectonophysics, Plate boundary—general
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Geophysical Research Letters
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