Study on the characteristics of rock failure strain and acoustic emission field for two parallelling faults with the same slip direction including asperities

By dealing with strain and acoustic emission (AE) data for two parallelling faults’s instability and failure with the same slip direction including asperities, the temporal-spatial evolution of strain and AE field distribution on the asperity of parallelling faults is analyzed. Furthermore the failure process of asperities and interaction among the asperities, i.e., positive and negative seismicity are discussed. Results show that instability and failure for the parallelling faults is a kind of negative seismicity.