Mechanisms and Seismological Signatures of Rupture Complexity Induced by Fault Damage Zones in Fully‐Dynamic Earthquake Cycle Models

This work has been supported by the French National Research Agency (ANR) through project FAULTS_R_GEMS (Grant ANR-17-CE31-0008) and Investments-in-the-Future project UCAJEDI (Grant ANR-15-IDEX-01), and the UCAJEDI Académies 2 and 3 through the project PERFAULT-3M “Physics of earthquake rupture and fault growth: multi-scale modeling of material failure”. It was also supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) through the early career research grant (Grant 42204059) and the Fundamental Research Funds for Central Universities disseminated by IDMR at Sichuan University. We thank Prithvi Thakur for providing an initial version of the sparse-matrix optimization, Caroline Ramel for her support in the use of the cluster in Geoazur, and Hojjat Kaveh for his assistance on using QDYN with Python. We also thank Isabelle Manighetti, and acknowledge the Resnick High Performance Computing Center of Caltech when finalizing the simulations. We are also grateful to the Associate Editor, Ahmed Elbanna, and an anonymous reviewer for their constructive revision that improved the quality of this manuscript.