Subduction earthquake sequences in a non-linear visco-elasto-plastic megathrust

Luca Dal Zilio ,1,2,3 Nadia Lapusta ,1,2 Jean-Philippe Avouac 1,2 and Taras Gerya 3 1Seismological Laboratory, California Institute of Technology (Caltech), Pasadena, CA 91125, United States. E-mail: luca.dalzilio@erdw.ethz.ch 2Department of Mechanical and Civil Engineering, California Institute of Technology (Caltech), Pasadena, CA 91125, United States 3Institute of Geophysics, Department of Geosciences, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zürich), CH-8093 Zürich, Switzerland