Ding et al. simulate various scenarios to analyze a backward rupture branching during the 2023 Kahramanmaraş earthquake, and show it can occur by both direct and indirect triggering depending on the fault's initial stress and friction conditions. Read 👉doi.org/10.26443/seism…

Thanks for the sharing by Shiqing. It should be a great honor for my collaborators and me. Paper link: Back‐Propagating Rupture: Nature, Excitation, and Implications - Ding - 2024 - Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth - Wiley Online Library agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/20…