A catalogue of 5000 aseismic slip events from the San Andreas, Anatolian, Dead Sea and Chaman fault systems

Steady aseismic slip on surface faults (creep) is occasionally interrupted by an impulsive or emergent acceleration in slip that offsets a surface fault by a few millimetres over a period of several hours to many days. We present here a catalogue of 5695 episodic events recorded by 78 creepmeters on creeping faults worldwide between 1980 and 2023. The events vary in amplitude from < 1 millimetre to > 1 centimetre, have durations from a few hours to a few weeks, and have been recorded on creepmeters at sampling rates from 1 second to 1 hour. Typical instrument resolutions are several microns. This work presents the overall features of these 5000+ events, evaluates patterns of their occurrence through space and time, and provides the resulting catalogue in a unified form to facilitate future investigations.