Foreshock-induced slip transients set mainshock nucleation timing
Experimental set-up A biaxial apparatus, CrackDyn, was used to perform the experiments (Fig. 1a). The apparatus housed two PMMA plates (40 × 10 × 1 cm and 45 × 10 × 1.8 cm). Experiments were conducted on PMMA rather than natural rocks because it provides …