Deeper penetration of large earthquakes on seismically quiescent faults-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

Deeper penetration of large earthquakes on seismically quiescent faults

Published:2016-06-10 Issue:6291 Volume:352 Page:1293-1297
ISSN:0036-8075
Container-title:Science
language:en
Short-container-title:Science

Author:

Jiang Junle¹,Lapusta Nadia¹²

Affiliation:

1. Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA.

2. Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA.

Abstract

A microseismic turn off Certain strike-slip faults do not have the expected number of microearthquakes between larger earthquakes. Jiang and Lapusta suggest that this behavior is down to what the last big earthquake looked like. They found that microseismicity turns off if an earthquake's rupture runs deeper than the fault's locking depth. This appears to be the case along the famous San Andreas Fault and also along other strike-slip faults around the world. The discovery may allow for better estimates of historic earthquake magnitudes and improve hazard assessments. Science , this issue p. 1293

Funder

U.S. Geological Survey (USGS)

National Science Foundation (NSF)

NSF

USGS Cooperative

Publisher

American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Subject

Multidisciplinary

Reference116 articles.

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2. Ultracataclasite structure and friction processes of the Punchbowl fault, San Andreas system, California