Seismogenic and tremorgenic slow slip near the stability transition of frictional sliding

Slow-slip events and tremors occur below the seismogenic zone of major plate boundaries. While the physics of aseismic slow-slip events is relatively well understood, the mechanics of seismogenic slow slip remains elusive because the conditions leading to slow or fast ruptures are thought to be mutually exclusive. Here, we explore fault dynamics in the parametric space of frictional conditions to show that seismogenic slow-slip events are the...