Buildup to Quakes Spied in Both Model And Real World.

The article discusses a report by seismologist Harmony Colella of Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, and colleagues attending the fall meeting of the American Geophysical Union from December 3-7, 2012 in San Francisco, California, on a fault behavior model. Colella and colleagues used computer simulations to show how slow slip events transfer stress in a fault, noting that the model behaved the way the fault off Japan did prior to the March 2011 earthquake.