Seismicity and stress-tensor inversion in the central Washington Cascade Mountains

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 89, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 811-821

  Giampiccolo, Elisabetta ^a   Musumeci, Carla ^a   Malone, Stephen D ^b   Gresta, Stefano ^a   Privitera, Eugenio ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CATANIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c Ist Internazionale di Vulcanologia   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MOMENT TENSOR; SEISMICITY; STRESS; TECTONIC SETTING;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 0032741155     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

References (32)

1. Bor, S. S. (1977). Scaling for seismic source spectra and energy attenuation in the Chelan Region, eastern Washington, Master Dissertation, University of Washington, Seattle, 65 pp.
2. Caccamo, D., G. Neri, A. Sarao', and M. Wyss (1996). Estimates of stress directions by inversion of earthquake fault plane solutions in Sicily, Geophys. J. Int. 125, 857-868.
3. Campbell, Nervell P. (1989). Structural and stratigraphic interpretation of rocks under the Yakima fold belt, Columbia basin, Special paper, Geol. Soc. Am. 239, 209-222.
4. Cocina, O., G. Neri, E. Privitera, and S. Spampinato (1997). Stress tensor computations in the Mount Etna area (southern Italy) and tectonic implications, J. Geodyn. 23, 2, 109-127.
5. Crosson, R. S. (1983). Review of seismicity in the Puget Sound region from 1970 through 1978, in Proc. of Workshop XIV, Earthquake Hazards of the Puget Sound Region, J. C. Yount and R. S. Crosson (Editors), Washington, U.S. Geol. Surv. Open-File Rept. 83-19, 6-18.
6. DeMets, C., G. Gorden, D. F. Argus, and S. Stein (1990). Current pate motions, J. Int. 101, 425-478.
7. Gephart, J. W. (1990). Stress and the direction of slip on fault planes, Tectonics 9, 845-858.
8. Gephart, J. W. and D. W. Forsyth (1984). An improved method for determining the regional stress tensor using earthquake focal mechanism data: application to the San Fernando earthquake sequence, J. Geophys. Res. 89, 9305-9320.
9. Grant, W. C., C. S. Weaver, and J. E. Zollweg (1984). The 14 February 1981 Elk Lake, Washington, earthquake sequence, Bull. Seism. Soc. Am. 74, 1289-1309.
10. Herrmann, R. B. (1979). FASTHYPO - a hypocenter location program, Earthquake Notes 50, no. 2, 25-37.
11. Ludwin, R. S., A. I. Qamar, S. D. Malone, C. Jonientz-Trisler, R. S. Crosson, R. Benson, and S. C. Moran (1994). Earthquake hypocenters in Washington and northern Oregon, 1987-1989, and operation of the Washington regional seismograph network, Washington Division of Geology and Earth Resources Information Circular 89, 40 pp.
12. Ma, L., R. S. Crosson, and R. S. Ludwin (1996). Western Washington earthquakes focal mechanisms and their relationship to regional tectonic stress, U.S. Geol. Surv. Profess. Pap. 1560, 257-284.
13. Malone, S. D. and S. C. Moran (1997). Deep long-period earthquakes in the Washington Cascades (abstract), EOS 78, Fall Meet. Suppl., p. F438.
14. Malone, S. D., G. H. Rothe, and S. W. Smith (1975). Details of microearthquake swarms in Columbia basin, Washington, Bull. Seism. Soc. Am. 65, 855-864.
15. Malone S. D., A. Qamar, and C. Jonientz-Trisler (1991). Recent seismicity studies at Mount Rainier, Washington, Seism. Res. Lett. 62, 25.
16. Mann, G. M. and C. E. Meyer (1993). Late Cenozoic structure and correlations to seismicity along the Olympic-Wallowa lineament, northwest United States, Geol. Soc. Am. Bull. 105, 853-871.
17. Michael, A. J. (1987). Use of focal mechanisms to determine stress: a control study, J. Geophys. Res. 92, 357-368.
18. Moran, S. C. (1994). Seismicity at Mount St. Helens, 1987-1992: Evidence for repressurization of an active magmatic system, J. Geophys. Res., 99, 4341-4354.
19. Moran, S. C. (1997). Three-dimensional P-wave velocity structure in the greater Mount Rainier area from local earthquake tomografy, Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Washington, Seattle, 168 pp.
20. Moran, S. C., D. R. Zimbelman, and S. D. Malone (1998). A model for the magmatic-hydrothermal system at Mount Rainier, Washington, from seismic and geochemistry constraints, J. Volcanology Geotherm. Res., submitted.
21. Parker, R. L. and M. K. McNutt (1980). Statistics for the one norm misfit measure, J. Geophys. Res. 85, 4429-4430.
22. Pitt, A. M. and D. P. Hill (1994). Long-period earthquakes in the Long Valley Caldera region, eastern California, Geophys. Res. Lett. 21, 1679-1682.
23. Raisz, E. (1945). The Olympic-Wallowa lineament, Am. J. Sci. 243-A, 479-485.
24. Reasenberg, P. A. and D. Oppenheimer (1985). Fortran computer programs for calculating and displaying earthquake fault-plane solutions, U.S. Geol. Surv. Open-File Rept. 85-379, 109 pp.
25. Stanley, W. D., S. Y. Johnson, A. I. Qamar, C. S. Weaver, and J. M. Williams (1996). Tectonics and seismicity of the southern Washington Cascade Range, Bull. Seism. Soc. Am. 86, 1-18.
26. Thompson, K. I. and A. Qamar (1989). The seismicity of Mount Rainier, Washington (abstract), Seism. Res. Lett. 60, 31.
27. Wang, K., T. Mulder, G. C. Rogers, and R. D. Hyndman (1995). Case for a very low coupling stress on the Cascadia subduction fault, J. Geophys. Res. 100, 12907-12918.
28. Weaver, C. S. and S. W. Smith (1983). Regional tectonic and earthquake hazard implications of a crustal fault zone in southwestern Washington, J. Geophys. Res. 88, 10371-10383.
29. Weaver, C. S., W. C. Grant, and J. E. Shemeta (1987). Local crustal extension at Mount St. Helens, Washington, J. Geophys. Res. 92, 10170-10178.
30. White, R. A. (1996). Precursory deep long-period earthquakes at Mount Pinatubo, in Fire and Mud: Eruption and Lahars of Mount Pinatubo, Philippines, C. G. Newhall and R. S. Punongbayan (Editors), University of Washington Press, Seattle, 307-326.
31. Wyss, M., B. Liang, W. R. Tanigawa, and W. Xiaoping (1992). Comparison of orientations of stress and strain tensor based on fault plane solutions in Kaoiki, Hawaii, J. Geophys. Res., 97, 4769-4790.
32. Zoback, M. D. and M. L. Zoback (1991). Tectonic stress field of North America, in neotectonics of North America, in Geol. Soc. Am. Boulder, D. Slemmons et al. (Editors), Colorado, 339-366.