from When We Were There (2)

When We Were There is a collaborative sequence of short prose-poem haibun whose subject is ostensibly the 40 cities of their titles. Unlike most gazetteers, however, they are not about the architecture, geography or history of a place but are personal responses which implicitly consider how we relate to and interpret the places we visit, remember, travel through or around. The Quint: an interdisciplinary quarterly from the north will publish a selection of work from our collaborative gazettee

from When We Were There (1)

When We Were There is a collaborative sequence of short prose-poem haibun whose subject is ostensibly the 40 cities of their titles. Unlike most gazetteers, however, they are not about the architecture, geography or history of a place but are personal responses which implicitly consider how we relate to and interpret the places we visit, remember, travel through or around. Axon will publish a selection of work from our collaborative gazetteer + a contextualising short essay

Appetite for Sky

Narrative, themes, and overall interpretations of an interactive text are heavily dependent on the journey the reader goes through and the choices they make. To aid in understanding how we, as humans, can take the most joy and satisfaction from interactive pieces of fiction, an introduction to the collaboratively-written text 'Appetite for the Sky' discusses the concept of choice, the states of immersion, engagement, and flow, the pleasures of possible worlds, and the safety of surrogate narratives impacting the satisfactory power of reader agency. The reader of 'Appetite for Sky' can move through the text knowing they are crafting their own adventure. The experience is theirs to savour, theirs to indulge in and, should they wish, theirs to repeat as many times as they continually find meaning. They have the choice to see how each passage builds on the ones selected before and revel in the satisfaction of their journey. And, perhaps most importantly, they may make whichever choices their heart leans to; in this experience they are safe and creative

Earthquake scaling relations for mid-ocean ridge transform faults

Author Posting. © American Geophysical Union, 2004. This article is posted here by permission of American Geophysical Union for personal use, not for redistribution. The definitive version was published in Journal of Geophysical Research 109 (2004): B12302, doi:10.1029/2004JB003110.A mid-ocean ridge transform fault (RTF) of length L, slip rate V, and moment release rate dot above M can be characterized by a seismic coupling coefficient χ = A E/A T, where A E ∼ dot above M/V is an effective seismic area and A T ∝ L 3/2 V −1/2 is the area above an isotherm T ref. A global set of 65 RTFs with a combined length of 16,410 km is well described by a linear scaling relation (1) A E ∝ A T, which yields χ = 0.15 ± 0.05 for T ref = 600°C. Therefore about 85% of the slip above the 600°C isotherm must be accommodated by subseismic mechanisms, and this slip partitioning does not depend systematically on either V or L. RTF seismicity can be fit by a truncated Gutenberg-Richter distribution with a slope β = 2/3 in which the cumulative number of events N 0 and the upper cutoff moment M C = μD C A C depend on A T. Data for the largest events are consistent with a self-similar slip scaling, D C ∝ A C 1/2, and a square root areal scaling (2) A C ∝ A T 1/2. If relations 1 and 2 apply, then moment balance requires that the dimensionless seismic productivity, ν0 ∝ inline equation 0/A T V, should scale as ν0 ∝ A T −1/4, which we confirm using small events. Hence the frequencies of both small and large earthquakes adjust with A T to maintain constant coupling. RTF scaling relations appear to violate the single-mode hypothesis, which states that a fault patch is either fully seismic or fully aseismic and thus implies A C ≤ A E. The heterogeneities in the stress distribution and fault structure responsible for relation 2 may arise from a thermally regulated, dynamic balance between the growth and coalescence of fault segments within a rapidly evolving fault zone.M.B. was supported by a NSF Graduate Research Fellowship, a MIT Presidential Fellowship, and the WHOI DOEI Fellowship. This research was supported by the Southern California Earthquake Center. SCEC is funded by NSF Cooperative Agreement EAR-0106924 and USGS Cooperative Agreement 02HQAG0008