Harsha S. Bhat
Directeur de Recherche, CNRS · Laboratoire de Géologie, École Normale Supérieure Teaching Professor, École Normale Supérieure
I study the mechanics of earthquakes, from how faults break, how fast they break, to what that does to the rock and ground around them.
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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!