Earthquake Swarms & Fluid-Driven Seismicity
Not all seismicity is driven by tectonic loading alone. We study earthquake swarms and fluid-pressure-driven sequences, where migrating fluids and multiscale fault complexity modulate where and when earthquakes occur. Recent work examines the multi-year Noto Peninsula sequence in Japan — including what finally ended the swarm and drove its aftershocks (Mohanna et al., EPSL 2026) — and the hydrothermally driven swarms of the Tengchong Volcanic Field on the SE Tibetan Plateau (Ma et al., Tectonophysics 2026). Machine-learning detection (e.g., the EdgePhase multi-station phase picker) lets us build the dense catalogs these studies require.
