Slow, Deep, Large-scale trigger?
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 objective of the DEEPtrigger project is to study subduction zones recently affected by megathrust events or earthquakes sequences, considering the mechanisms of deformation in the larger subduction system and their potential role in pushing the megathrust to failure.
