Stress loading from viscous flow in the lower crust and triggering of aftershocks following the 1994 Northridge, California, earthquake

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 26, Issue 21, 1999, Pages 3209-3212

  Deng, Jishu ^a   Hudnut, Kenneth ^b   Gurnis, Michael ^a   Hauksson, Egill ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SHOCK WAVES; VISCOELASTICITY; VISCOUS FLOW; DECAY (ORGANIC); GEOPHYSICS; TECTONICS;

AFTERSHOCKS; LOWER CRUST; RUPTURE ZONE;

SEISMOLOGY; LOADING;

EARTHQUAKE MECHANISM; LOWER CRUST; STRESS; VISCOUS FLOW;

UNITED STATES;

LOWER CRUST; NORTHRIDGE EARTHQUAKES; PHYSICAL INTERPRETATION; RUPTURE ZONE; STRESS LOADING; SURFACE HEAT FLOW; UPPER CRUST; VISCOELASTIC MODELING;

CALLUNA VULGARIS;

EID: 0033226501     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999GL010496     Document Type: Article

References (19)

1. Bosl, W. J., and A. Nur, Numerical simulation of postseismic vertical displacement due to pore pressure changes following the 28 June 1992 Landers earthquake, Eos, Trans. AGU 78, F491,1997.
2. Dieterich, J., A constitutive law for rate of earthquake production and its application to earthquake clustering, J. Geophys. Res., 99, 2601-2618, 1994.
3. Donnellan, A., and G. Lyzenga, GPS observations of fault after-slip and upper crustal deformation following the Northridge earthquake, J. Geophys. Res., 103, 21,285-21,297, 1998.
4. Freed, A., and J. Lin, Time-dependent changes in failure stress following thrust earthquakes, J. Geophys. Res., 103, 24,393-24,409, 1998.
5. Hardebeck, J. L., J. J. Nazareth, and E. Hauksson, The static stress change triggering model: Constraints from two southern California aftershock sequences, J. Geophys. Res., 103, 24,427-24,437, 1998.
6. Harris, R. A, and R. W. Simpson, In the shadow of 1857-the effect of the great Ft. Tejon earthquake on subsequent earthquakes in southern California, Geophys. Res. Lett., 23, 229-232, 1996.
7. Heflin, M., et al., Rate change observed at JPLM after the Northridge earthquake, Geophys. Res. Lett., 25, 93-96, 1998.
8. Hodgkinson, K. M., R. S. Stein, K. W. Hudnut, J. Satalich, J. H. Richards, Damage and restoration of geodetic infrastructure caused by the 1994 Northridge, California, earthquake, U. S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 96-517, 70 pp., Menlo Park, CA, 1996.
9. Hudnut, K. W., et al., Co-seismic displacements of the 1994 Northridge, California, earthquake, Bull. Seismol. Soc. Am., 86, S19-S36, 1996.
10. Kisslinger, C., and L. M. Jones, Properties of aftershock sequences in southern California, J. Geophys. Res., 96, 11,947-11,958, 1991.
11. Mogi, K., Earthquakes and fractures, Tectonophysics, 5, 35-55, 1967.
12. Nur, A., and J. R. Booker, Aftershocks caused by pore fluid flow? Science, 175, 885-887, 1972.
13. Richards-Dinger, K. B., and P. M. Shearer, Estimating crustal thickness in southern California by stacking PmP arrivals, J. Geophys. Res., 102, 15,211-15,224, 1997.
14. Savage, J. C., J. L. Svarc, W. H. Prescott, and K. W. Hudnut, Deformation following the 1994 Northridge earthquake (M=6.7), southern California, Geophys. Res. Lett., 25, 2725-2728, 1998.
15. Scholz, C. H., Microfractures, aftershocks, and seismicity, Bull. Seismol. Soc. Am., 58, 1117-1130, 1968.
16. Shen, Z.-K., D. D. Jackson, and B. X. Ge, Crustal deformation across and beyond the Los Angeles basin from geodetic measurements, J. Geophys. Res., 101, 27,957-27,980, 1996.
17. Stein, R. S., G. C. P. King, and J. Lin, Stress triggering of the 1994 M = 6.7 Northridge, California, Earthquake by its predecessors, Science, 265, 1432-1435, 1994.
18. Thatcher, W., and J. B. Rundle, A viscoelastic coupling model for the cyclic deformation due to periodically repeated earthquakes at subduction zones, J. Geophys. Res., 89, 7631-7640, 1984.
19. Thio, H. K., and H. Kanamori, Source complexity of the 1994 Northridge earthquake and its relation to aftershock mechanisms, Bull. Seismol. Soc. Am., 86, S84-S92, 1996.