Tectonic activity of the lithosphere, stresses in the lithosphere, cohesion, internal friction, Coulomb criterion, Anderson’s fault theory, fault population, structure and rheology of the fault zone, thermodynamics of the fault zone, aseismic motions. Fault surface, initial stress. Initialization of the rupture, modes of rupture propagation, spontaneous rupture propagation and boundary conditions on the fault surface. Friction – microscopic and macroscopic views. Results of laboratory tests. Frictions laws and rupture propagation on the fault. Healing of rupture. Energy budget of the rupture initialization and propagation. Seismic efficiency. Effects of the initial stress, material heterogeneity and geometry of the fault surface. Effect of the pore pressure. Frictional heating. Small and large earthquakes in terms of rupture propagation and seismic efficiency. 

Type of methodology: Combination of lecture and hands-on

Participants receive the certificate of attendance: Yes

Paid training activity for participants: Yes, for all

Participants prerequisite knowledge: Numerical methods (linear algebra, statistics) Domain-specific background knowledge