Harsha S. Bhat
Directeur de Recherche, CNRS · Laboratoire de Géologie, École Normale Supérieure Teaching Professor, École Normale Supérieure
I study how faults break, at the interface between earthquake physics and solid mechanics with occasional excursions into rock mechanics, tectonics and seismology. B.E. in Civil Engineering from NIT Karnataka, Ph.D. from Harvard University, postdoctoral work at Caltech and the University of Southern California.
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New paper on laboratory ruptures
We provide direct experimental evidence of a transition in fault weakening mechanisms due to fault structure evolution.
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New paper on tectonic origin of volcanism
Far-field Africa-Eurasia compression can localize deformational heating near the Moho, offering a tectonic origin for Massif Central and Eifel volcanism.
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New paper explaining Lesser Antilles topography
Plate buckling and deformational heating during subduction initiation produce a Moho-level thermal anomaly explaining Lesser Antilles topography and arc location.
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New paper submitted on Intraplate earthquake swarms
A High-Resolution Earthquake Catalog Reveals Coupled Fault Interactions and Multiple Controls on Seismicity Migration in an Intraplate Earthquake Swarm
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New paper submitted on Tidal sensitivity of tremors
Tidal sensitivity in a mixed fast and slow earthquake system in northeastern Japan
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Welcome to the group Mingqi!
Mingqi Liu will start his postdoc with Jean-Arthur Olive and myself in May 2026. We are very happy to have you Mingqi!
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Two new papers accepted on Digital Twin of a fault zone and Tsunami modeling
Check out the papers by Almakari et al. (2026) and Melkior et al. (2026) in my Publications page.
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New paper submitted on 3D geometrical complexities and slip dynamics
Slow and fast earthquakes emerge due to fault geometrical complexity.
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Solid earth tides and tremors
Fault resonance as a mechanism to explain solid earth tides and tremors. Congrats Yishuo on your first paper as a PhD student!
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Congrats Pierre and Kurama
Congrats Pierre Romanet and Kurama Okubo for starting their new jobs as permanent researchers at Cerema, France and NIED, Japan, respectively!