What is the earthquake fracture energy?

Giulio Di Toro1,2, Stefan Bjorklund Nielsen3, Francois Xavier Passelegue4, Elena Spagnuolo5, Andrea Bistacchi6, Michele Fondriest2, Shane Murphy5, Stefano Aretusini7 and Matteo Demurtas8, (1)INGV (Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia), Rome, Italy, (2)University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom, (3)University of Durham, Department of Earth Sciences, Durham, United Kingdom, (4)University of Manchester, SEAES, Manchester, United Kingdom, (5)National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology, Roma 1, Rome, Italy, (6)University of Milan - Bicocca, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Milan, Italy, (7)University of Manchester, Manchester, M13, United Kingdom, (8)Padua University, Dipartimento di Geoscienze, Padua, Italy