Modelling precursory laboratory seismicity using a roughness-based rate- and state-dependent friction model

• Rate and state friction (RSF) models were developed from roughness measurements 10 of a friction experiment that displayed properties of wear 11 • Simulations showed that smooth sections nucleated events that ruptured and were 12 arrested by local roughened sections representing barriers 13 • Source properties of the RSF ruptures were compared to independently measured 14 kinematic estimates from a concerted study for the first time 15