Eastern Taiwan’s double-vergence suture hosts frequent M ≥ 6 earthquakes and widespread aseismic slip, offering a natural laboratory to study earthquake triggering. The study shows that 24 years of repeating earthquake and earthquake swarm data reveal an aseismic slip acceleration beginning ~3 years before the April 3, 2024 Mw 7.3 Hualien earthquake.
- Wei Peng
- Kate Huihsuan Chen
- Yan-Hong Chen
