Award at the AGU Fall Meeting 2022

Their research is entitled “Laboratory Observations Linking Fault Surface Characteristics to the Onset and Evolution of Frictional Sliding and Off-fault Damage”. The external page OSPA is awarded only for the upper 2-5% presenters and their oral presentation was recognised for their observations of non uniform pre-slip with DSS measurements in experiments conducted in the LabQuake rock deformation apparatus. Their research is quite important to further understand earthquake nucleation.

*Michail, S.¹, Selvadurai, P. A.¹, Cebry, S.B.L.², Salazar Vásquez, A.^1,3, Rast, M.⁴, Bianchi, P.¹, Madonna, C.⁴, Wiemer, S.¹

^{1 Swiss Seismological Service, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
2 Civil and Environmental Engineering, Cornell University, NY, USA
3 University of Applied Sciences of Eastern Switzerland, Rapperswil, Switzerland
4 Geological Institute, Department of Earth Science, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland}