Nonvolcanic Tremors Deep Beneath the San Andreas Fault

Author:

Nadeau Robert M.1,Dolenc David1

Affiliation:

1. Berkeley Seismological Laboratory, 211 McCone Hall, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720–4760, USA.

Abstract

We have discovered nonvolcanic tremor activity (i.e., long-duration seismic signals with no clear P or S waves) within a transform plate boundary zone along the San Andreas Fault near Cholame, California, the inferred epicentral region of the 1857 Fort Tejon earthquake (moment magnitude ~7.8). The tremors occur between 20 to 40 kilometers' depth, below the seismogenic zone (the upper ~15 kilometers of Earth's crust where earthquakes occur), and their activity rates may correlate with variations in local earthquake activity.

Publisher

American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Subject

Multidisciplinary

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