Partial Ruptures Cannot Explain the Long Recurrence Intervals of Repeating Earthquakes

Partial Ruptures Cannot Explain the Long Recurrence Intervals of Repeating Earthquakes Turner, AR; Hawthorne, JC; Cattania, C Repeating earthquakes repeatedly rupture the same fault asperities, which are likely loaded to failure by surrounding aseismic slip. However, repeaters occur less often than would be expected if these earthquakes accommodate all of the long‐term slip on the asperities. Here, we assess a possible explanation for this slip discrepancy: partial ruptures. On asperities that a