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\title{Upper plate response to a sequential elastic rebound and slab
acceleration during laboratory-scale subduction megathrust earthquakes}



\author[1,1,1]{Ehsan Kosari}%
\author[2,2,2]{Matthias Rosenau}%
\author[1,1,1]{Thomas Ziegenhagen}%
\author[3,3,3]{Onno Oncken}%
\affil[1]{Helmholtz Centre Potsdam, GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences}%
\affil[2]{GFZ Potsdam}%
\affil[3]{GeoForschungsZentrum Potsdam}%


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  \date{May 18, 2024}


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An earthquake-induced stress drop on a megathrust instigates different
responses on the upper plate and slab. We mimic homogenous and
heterogeneous megathrust interfaces at the laboratory scale to monitor
the strain relaxation on two elastically bi-material plates by
establishing analog velocity weakening and neutral materials. A
sequential elastic rebound follows the coseismic shear-stress drop in
our elastoplastic-frictional models: a fast rebound of the upper plate
and the delayed and smaller rebound on the elastic belt (model slab). A
combination of the rebound of the slab and the rapid relaxation (i.e.,
elastic restoration) of the upper plate after an elastic overshooting
may accelerate the relocking of the megathrust. This acceleration
triggers/antedates the failure of a nearby asperity and enhances the
early slip reversal in the rupture area. Hence, the trench-normal
landward displacement in the upper plate may reach a significant amount
of the entire interseismic slip reversal and speeds up the stress
build-up on the upper plate backthrust that emerges self-consistently at
the downdip end of the seismogenic zones. Moreover, the backthrust
switches its kinematic mode from a normal to reverse mechanism during
the coseismic and postseismic stages, reflecting the sense of shear on
the interface.%
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