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Tectonics V: Quantifying and characterizing crustal deformation •  The geometric moment •  Brittle strain •  The usefulness of the scaling laws Quantifying and characterizing crustal deformation: Quantifying and characterizing crustal deformation: Marone et al., 1991 Quantifying and characterizing crustal deformation: Langbein et al., 2006 Quantifying and characterizing crustal deformation: •  The inferred geodetic moment due to afterslip was equivalent to a Mw 6.1 earthquake over 4 months following the rupture and Mw 6.3 2 years after the mainshock (about 3 times the co-seismic moment). Johnson et al., 2006 Quantifying and characterizing crustal deformation: preseismic We wish to know: •  Where in the cycle are we? •  What fraction of the slip is coseismic? postseismic Quantifying and characterizing crustal deformation: the geometric moment The geometric moment for faults is: M = UA . f f where U is the mean geologic displacement over a fault, whose area is A . f € Similarly, the geometric moment for earthquakes is: M = ΔUA . e e where ΔU is the mean co-seismic displacement over an earthquake rupture, whose area is A . e € Quantifying and characterizing crustal deformation: the geometric moment As a side-note: The geometric moment is in fact the seismic moment divided by the shear modulus, G: