During large earthquakes, seismic sources tend to split in several sub-events that rupture neighboring fault patches called segments. The scaling of such segmentation plays a decisive role earthquake dynamics, especially for strike-slip events. Using numerical modeling we demonstrate when pristine layer brittle material is sheared, the first oblique Riedel fractures nucleate with regular spacin...

In this work, based on the concept of test pattern broadcasting [1], [2], we propose a new core-based testing method which gives core users the maximum level of test freedom. Instead of only using the test patterns delivered by core providers, core users are allowed to broadcast their own test patterns to the cores of a SoC (system on chip) design for parallel scan testing. The fault coverage o...

Service Oriented Computing relies on the integration of heterogeneous software technologies and infrastructures that provide developers with a common ground for composing services and producing applications flexibly. However, this approach eases software development but makes dependability a big challenge. Integrating such diverse software items raise issues that traditional testing is not able...

Abstract. We make a thorough review of geological and seismological data on the long-lived Schio-Vicenza Fault System (SVFS) in northern Italy present for it geodynamic seismotectonic interpretation. The SVFS is major high-angle structure transverse to mean trend eastern Southern Alps fold-and-thrust belt, knowledge this deeply rooted literature spans more than century half. main fault (SVF), w...

Abstract Strike-slip faults are classically associated with pull-apart basins where continental crust is thinned between two laterally offset fault segments. We propose a subsidence mechanism to explain the formation of new type basin no substantial segment or syn-strike-slip thinning observed. Such “flexural strike-slip basins” form due sediment load creating accommodation space by bending lit...

A conceptual model is proposed for the generation of low-angle normal faults in Metamorphic Core Complexes. The model is based on three assumptions: (1) the isostatic response to normal fault motion is of regional extent; (2) when a fault segment is significantly rotated from the optimum angle of slip, relative to the crustal stress field, it is replaced by a new planar fault oriented in the op...

Abstract Tunisia is known of sparse and moderate earthquakes. However, there are seismically damaged historical buildings in the eastern Sahel region. The Roman amphitheatre Thysdrus (modern El-Jem), various Islamic religious secular Sousse Monastir testify to seismic events with intensity up IX (EMS98 scale). We raise hypothesis that their destruction was caused by nearby east-west Cherichira-...

An MJMA6.5 earthquake (foreshock) and MJMA7.3 earthquake (mainshock) struck Kumamoto Prefecture on April 14, 2016, and April 16, 2016. To evaluate the effect of crustal deformation due to the earthquake on the Aso magma system, we detected crustal deformation using InSAR and GNSS. From InSAR analysis, we detected large crustal deformations along the Hinagu Fault, the Futagawa Fault, and the nor...

This paper presents a novel fault location method for series compensated transmission lines. It is established based on synchronized voltages sampling and Thevenin impedance from both ends of series compensated transmission line. The method is based on the use of phasor measurement units (PMU) technology which is aimed to be independent of current measurements, fault type, fault resistance, fau...