Relationships between fault geometry, slip rate variability and earthquake recurrence in extensional settings

Patience A. Cowie (1), Gerald P. Roberts (2), Jonathan M. Bull (3) & Francesco Visini (4)
(1) School of GeoSciences, University of Edinburgh, EH8 9XP, UK. (2) School of Earth Sciences, Birkbeck College, University of London, WC1E 7HX, UK. (3) School of Ocean and Earth Science, University of Southampton, National Oceanography Centre, Southampton, SO14 3ZH, UK. (4) Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra, Università degli Studi "G. d'Annunzio", Campus Universitario di Madonna delle Piane, 66013 Chieti Scalo, Italy.