Coulomb stress accumulation along the San Andreas Fault system

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 108, Issue 6, 2003, Pages

  Smith, Bridget ^a   Sandwell, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Coulomb stress; Crustal deformation; Crustal stress; San Andreas Fault; SCEC velocities

Indexed keywords

COULOMB CRITERION; CRUSTAL DEFORMATION; EARTHQUAKE RECURRENCE; EARTHQUAKE TRIGGER; GPS; SAN ANDREAS FAULT; STRESS;

CALIFORNIA; SAN ANDREAS FAULT; UNITED STATES;

EID: 16744366171     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

References (83)

1. Archuleta, R. J., A faulting model for the 1979 Imperial Valley earthquake, J. Geophys. Res., 89, 4559-4585, 1984.
2. Atwater, T., Plate tectonic history of southern California with emphasis on the Western Transverse Ranges and Santa Rosa Island, in Contributions to the Geology of the Northern Channel Islands, Southern California, edited by P. W. Weigand, pp. 1-8, Am. Assoc. of Pet. Geol., Pac. Sect., Bakersfield, Calif., 1998.
3. Bakun, W., Seismic Activity of the San Francisco Bay Region, Bull. Seismol. Soc. Am., 89, 764-784, 1999.
4. Bird, P., and R. W. Rosenstock, Kinematics of present crust and mantle flow in southern California, Geo. Soc. Am. Bull., 95, 946-957, 1984.
5. Brown, R. D., Jr., Quaternary deformation, in The San Andreas Fault System California, edited by R. E. Wallace, U.S. Geol. Surv. Prof. Pap., 1515, 104-109, 1991.
6. Budding, K. E., D. P. Schwartz, and D. H. Oppenheimer, Slip rate, earthquake recurrence, and seismogenic potential of the Rodgers Creek Fault Zone, northern California: Initial results, Geophys. Res. Lett., 18, 447-450, 1991.
7. Burgmann, R., D. Schmidt, R. M. Nadeau, M. d'Alessio, E. Fielding, D. Manaker, T. V. McEvilly, and M. H. Murray, Earthquake potential along the northern Hayward fault, California, Science, 289, 1178-1182, 2000.
8. Byerlee, J. D., Friction of rock. Pure Appl. Geophys., 116, 615-626, 1978.
9. Castillo, D. A., and W. L. Ellsworth, Seismotectonics of the San Andreas fault system between Point Arena and Cape Mendocino in northern California: Implications for the development and evolution of a young transform, J. Geophys. Res., 98, 6543-6560, 1993.
10. Chinnery, M. A., The deformation of the ground around surface faults, Bull. Seismol. Soc. Am., 51, 355-372, 1961.
11. Chinnery, M. A., The stress changes that accompany strike-slip faulting, Bull. Seismol. Soc. Am., 53, 921-932, 1963.
12. Craymer, M. R., and P. Vanicek, Comment on "Saugus-Palmdale, California, field test for refraction error in historical leveling surveys" by R. S. Stein, C. T. Whalen, S. R. Holdahl, W. E. Strange, and W. Thatcher, and reply to "Comment on 'Further analysis of the 1981 Southern California field test for leveling refraction by M. R. Craymer and P. Vanicek' by R. S. Stein, C. T. Whalen, S. R. Holdahl, W. E. Strange, and W. Thatcher", J. Geophys. Res., 94, 7667-7672, 1989.
13. DeMets, C., R. G. Gordon, D. F. Argus, and S. Stein, Current plate motions, Geophys. J. Int., 101, 425-478, 1990.
14. DeMets, C., R. G. Gordon, D. F. Argus, and S. Stein, Effect of recent revisions to the geomagnetic reversal time scale on estimates of current plate motions, Geophys. Res. Lett., 21, 2191-2194, 1994.
15. Dokka, R. K., and C. J. Travis, Role of the Eastern California Shear Zone in accommodating Pacific-North American plate motion, Geophys. Res. Lett., 17, 1323-1326, 1990.
16. Eaton, J. P., M. E. O'Neill, and J. N. Murdock, Aftershocks of the 1966 Parkfield-Cholame, California earthquake: A detailed study, Bull. Seismol. Soc. Am., 60, 1151-1197, 1970.
17. Eberhart-Phillips, D., M. Lisowski, and M. D. Zoback, Crustal strain near the Big Bend of the San Andreas fault: Analysis of the Los Padres-Tehachapi trilateration networks, California, J. Geophys. Res., 95, 1139-1153, 1990.
18. Elders, W. A., R. W. Rex, T. Meidav, P. T. Robinson, and S. Biehler, Crustal spreading in Southern California, Science, 178, 15-24, 1972.
19. Ellsworth, W. L., Earthquake history, 1769-1989, in The San Andreas Fault System, California, edited by R. E. Wallace, U.S. Geol. Surv. Prof. Pap., 1515, 152-187, 1990.
20. Feigl, K. L., et al., Space geodetic measurements of crustal deformation in central and southern California, 1984-1992, J. Geophys. Res., 98, 21,677-21,712, 1993.
21. Fialko, Y., and M. Simons, Deformation and seismicity in the Coso geothermal area, Inyo County, California: Observations and modeling using satellite radar interferometry, J. Geophys. Res., 105, 21,781-21,794, 2000.
22. Freymueller, J. T., M. H. Murray, P. Segall, and D. Castillo, Kinematics of the Pacific-North America plate boundary zone, northern California, J. Geophys. Res., 104, 7419-7441, 1999.
23. Furlong, K. P., W. D. Hugo, and G. Zandt, Geometry and evolution of the San Andreas Fault Zone in northern California, J. Geophys. Res., 94, 3100-3110, 1989.
24. Genrich, J. F., and Y. Bock, Crustal deformation across the Imperial Fault: Results from kinematic GPS surveys and trilateration of a densely spaced, small-aperture network, J. Geophys. Res., 102, 4985-5004, 1997.
25. Harris, R. A., and P. Segall, Detection of a locked zone at depth on the Parkfield, California, segment on the San Andreas Fault, J. Geophys. Res., 92, 7945-7962, 1987.
26. Harris, R., and R. Simpson, Changes in static stress on southern California faults after the 1992 Landers earthquake, Nature, 360, 251-254, 1992.
27. Hill, D. P., P. Mowinckel, and L. G. Peake, Earthquakes, active faults, and geothermal areas in the Imperial Valley, California, Science, 188, 1306-1308, 1975.
28. Hill, D. P., J. P. Eaton, and L. M. Jones, Seismicity, 1980-1986, in The San Andreas Fault System. California, edited by R. E. Wallace, U.S. Geol. Surv. Prof. Pap., 1515, 133-136, 1991.
29. Hudnut, K. W., L. Seeber, and J. Pacheco, Cross-fault triggering in the November 1987 Superstition Hills earthquake sequence, southern California, Geophys. Res. Lett., 16, 199-202, 1989.
30. Jennings, C. W., Fault activity map of California and adjacent areas with locations and ages of recent volcanic eruptions, Data Map Ser. 6, 92 pp., 2 plates, map scale 1:750,000, Calif. Div. of Mines and Geol., Sacramento, 1994.
31. Johnson, C. E., and D. M. Hadley, Tectonic implications of the Brawley earthquake swarm, Imperial Valley, California, January 1975, Bull. Seismol. Soc. Am., 66, 1133-1144, 1976.
32. Johnson, H. O., D. C. Agnew, and F. K. Wyatt, Present-day crustal deformation in southern California, J. Geophys. Res., 99, 23,951-23,974, 1994.
33. Jones, L. M., Focal mechanisms and the state of stress on the San Andreas Fault in southern California, J. Geophys. Res., 93, 8869-8891, 1988.
34. King, G. C. P., and M. Cocco, Fault interaction by elastic stress changes: New clues from earthquake sequences, Adv. Geophys., 44, 1-38, 2001.
35. King, G. C. P., R. S. Stein, and J. Lin, Static stress changes and the triggering of earthquakes, Bull. Seismol. Soc. Am., 84, 935-953, 1994.
36. King, N. E., P. Segall, and W. Prescott, Geodetic measurements near Parkfield, California, 1959-1984, J. Geophys. Res., 92, 2747-2766, 1987.
37. Lachenbruch, A. H., and J. H. Sass, The stress heat-flow paradox and thermal results from Cajon Pass. Geophys. Res. Lett., 15, 981-984, 1988.
38. Larsen, S. C., and R. S. Reilinger, Age constraints for the present fault configuration in the Imperial Valley, California: Evidence for northwestward propagation of the Gulf of California rift system, J. Geophys. Res., 96, 10,339-10,346, 1991.
39. Larsen, S., R. Reilnger, H. Neubegauer, and W. Strange, Global positioning system measurements of deformations associated with the 1987 Superstition Hills earthquake: Evidence of conjugate faulting, J. Geophys. Res., 97, 4885-4902, 1992.
40. Li, V. C., and H. S. Lim, Modeling surface deformations at complex strikeslip plate boundaries, J. Geophys. Res., 93, 7943-7954, 1988.
41. Lisowski, M., J. C. Savage, and W. H. Prescott, The Velocity field along the San Andreas Fault in central and southern California, J. Geophys. Res., 96, 8369-8389, 1991.
42. Lomnitz, C., F. Mooser, C. R. Allen, J. N. Brune, and W. Thatcher, Seismicity and tectonics of the northern gulf of California region, Mexico-Preliminary results, Geophys. Int., 10, 37-48, 1970.
43. Lyons, S. N., Y. Bock, and D. T. Sandwell, Creep along the Imperial Fault, southern California, from GPS measurements, J. Geophys. Res., 107(B10), 2249, doi:10.1029/2001JB000763, 2002.
44. Matthews, M. V., and P. Segall, Estimation of depth-dependent fault slip from measured surface deformation with application to the 1906 earthquake, J. Geophys. Res., 98, 12,153-12,163, 1993.
45. Minster, J. B., and T. H. Jordan, Vector constraints on western U.S. deformations from space geodesy neotectonics and plate motions, J. Geophys. Res., 92, 4798-4804, 1987.
46. Murray, M. H., and P. Segall, Modeling broadscale deformation in northern California and Nevada from plate motions and elastic strain accumulation, Geophys. Res. Lett., 28, 3215-4318, 2001.
47. Okada, Y., Surface deformation due to shear and tensile faults in a half-space, Bull. Seismol. Soc. Am., 75, 1135-1154, 1985.
48. Okada, Y., Internal deformation due to shear and tensile faults in a half-space, Bull. Seismol. Soc. Am., 82, 1018-1040, 1992.
49. Oppenheimer, D. H., P. A. Reasenberg, and R. W. Simpson, Fault plane solutions of the 1984 Morgan Hill, California, earthquake sequence: Evidence for the state of stress on the Calaveras Fault, J. Geophys. Res., 93, 9007-9026, 1988.
50. Parker, R. L., Nonlinear problems, in Geophysical Inverse Theory, pp. 293-368, Princeton Univ. Press, Princeton, N. J., 1994.
51. Peterson, M., W. Bryant, C. Cramer, T. Cao, M. Reichle, A. Frankel, J. Lienkaemper, P. McCrory, and D. Schwartz, Probabilistic seismic hazard assessment for the state of California, U.S. Geol. Surv. Open File Rep., 96-706, 1-64, 1996.
52. Pollitz, F. F., C. Wicks, and W. Thatcher, Mantle flow beneath a continental strike-slip fault: Postseismic deformation after the 1999 Hector Mine earthquake, Science, 293, 1814-1818, 2001.
53. Richards-Dinger, K. B., and P. M. Shearer, Earthquake locations in southern California obtained using source-specific station terms, J. Geophys. Res., 105, 10,939-10,960, 2000.
54. Rockwell, T., C. Loughman, and P. Merifield, Late Quaternary rate of slip along the San Jacinto fault zone near Anza, southern California, J. Geophys. Res., 95, 8593-8605, 1990.
55. Rybicki, K., Analysis of aftershocks on the basis of dislocation theory, Phys. Earth Planet Inter., 7, 409-422, 1973.
56. Sanders, C. O., Earthquake depths and the relation to strain accumulation and stress near strike-slip faults in southern California, J. Geophys. Res., 95, 4751-4762, 1990.
57. Sauber, J., W. Thatcher, and S. C. Solomon, Geodetic measurements of deformation in the central Mojave Desert, California, J. Geophys. Res., 91, 12,683-12,693, 1986.
58. Savage, J. C., Equivalent strike-slip earthquake cycles in half-space and lithosphere-asthenosphere earth models, J. Geophys. Res., 95, 4873-4879, 1990.
59. Savage, J. C., and R. O. Burford, Geodetic determination of relative plate motion in central California, J. Geophys. Res., 78, 832-845, 1973.
60. Savage, J. C., and M. Lisowski, Inferred depth of creep on the Hayward fault, central California, J. Geophys. Res., 98, 787-793, 1993.
61. Savage, J. C., and R. W. Simpson, Surface strain accumulation and the seismic moment tensor, Bull. Seismol. Soc. Am., 87, 1345-1353, 1997.
62. Savage, J. C., W. H. Prescott, M. Lisowski, and N. King, Deformation across the Salton Trough, California, 1973-1977, J. Geophys. Res., 84, 3069-3079, 1979.
63. Sieh, K. E., and P. L. Williams, Behavior of the southernmost San Andreas Fault during the past 300 years, J. Geophys. Res., 95, 6629-6645, 1990.
64. Simpson, R. W., and P. A. Reasenberg, Earthquake-induced static stress changes on central California faults, U.S. Geol. Surv. Prof. Pap., Rep. P 1550-F, F55-F89, 1994.
65. Simpson, R. W., J. J. Lienkaemaper, and J. S. Galehouse, Variations in creep rate along the Hayward Fault, California, interpreted as changes in depth of creep, Geophys. Res. Lett., 28, 2269-2271, 2001.
66. Stein, R. S., Contemporary plate motion and crustal deformation, Rev. Geophys., 25, 855-863, 1987.
67. Stein, R. S., and M. Lisowski, The 1979 Homestead Valley earthquake sequence, California: Control of aftershocks and postseismic deformation, J. Geophys. Res., 88, 6477-6490, 1983.
68. 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.
69. Steinbrugge, K. V., W. K. Cloud, and N. H. Scott, The Santa Rosa, California, earthquakes on October 1, 1969, vol. 1970, pp. 1-63, U.S. Environ. Sci. Serv. Admin., Silver Spring, Md., 1970.
70. Steketee, J. A., On Volterra's dislocations in a semi-infinite elastic medium, Can. J. Phys., 36, 192-205, 1958.
71. Thatcher, W., Systematic inversion of geodetic data in central California, J. Geophys. Res., 84, 2283-2295, 1979.
72. Thatcher, W., Nonlinear strain buildup and the earthquake cycle on the San Andreas Fault, J. Geophys. Res., 88, 5893-5902, 1983.
73. Ward, S. N., Pacific-North America plate motions: New results from very long baseline interferometry, J. Geophys. Res., 95, 21,965-21,981, 1990.
74. Ward, S. N., A multidisciplinary approach to seismic hazard in southern California, Bull. Seismol. Soc. Am., 84, 1293-1309, 1994.
75. Wdowinski, S., Y. Sudman, and Y. Bock, Geodetic detection of active faults in S. California, Geophys. Res. Lett., 28, 2321-2324, 2001.
76. Weldon, R. J., II, and K. E. Sieh, Holocene rate of slip and tentative recurrence interval for large earthquakes on the San Andreas Fault, Cajon Pass, southern California, Bull. Seismol. Soc. Am., 96, 793-812, 1985.
77. Weertman, J., Continuum distribution of dislocations on faults with finite friction, Bull. Seismol. Soc. Am., 54, 1035-1058, 1964.
78. Williams, C. A., and R. M. Richardson, A rheologically layered three-dimensional model of the San Andreas Fault in central and southern California, J. Geophys. Res., 96, 16,597-16,623, 1991.
79. Working Group on California Earthquake Probabilities (WGCEP), Seismic hazards in southern California: Probable earthquakes, 1994 to 2024, Bull. Seismol. Soc. Am., 85, 379-439, 1995.
80. Working Group on California Earthquake Probabilities (WGCEP), Earthquake probabilities in the San Francisco Bay Region: 2000 to 2030-A summary of Ffindings, U.S. Geol. Surv. Open File Rep. [Online], 99-517, version 1. 0, 1999.
81. Working Group on Northern California Earthquake Potential (WGNCEP), Database of potential sources for earthquakes larger than magnitude 6 in northern California, U.S. Geol. Surv. Open File Rep., 96-705, 1996.
82. Yule, D., and K. Sieh, Neotectonic and paleoseismic investigation of the San Andreas fault system, San Gorgonio Pass, 1996 SCEC Annu. Rep. 14-08-001-A0899 C, pp. 70-74, South. Calif. Earthquake Cent., Los Angeles, Calif., 1997.
83. Zeng, Y., Viscoelastic stress-triggering of the 1999 Hector Mine earthquake by the 1992 Landers earthquake, Geophys. Res. Lett., 28, 3007-3010, 2001.