Evidence for a global seismic-moment release sequence

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 95, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 833-843

  Bufe, Charles G ^a   Perkins, David M ^a  

^a DENVER FEDERAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; EARTHQUAKES; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; RANDOM ERRORS; VISCOELASTICITY;

QUIESCENCE; SEISMIC-MOMENT RELEASE; TEMPORAL CLUSTERING;

SEISMOLOGY;

EARTHQUAKE SWARM; SEISMIC MOMENT;

EID: 22744449158     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120040110     Document Type: Article

References (31)

1. Abe, K. (1979). Size of great earthquakes from 1837-1974 inferred from tsunami data, J. Gcophys. Res. 84, 1561-1568.
2. Barrientos, S. E., and S. N. Ward (1991). The 1960 Chile earthquake: inversion for slip distribution from surface deformation, Geophys. J. Int. 103, 589-598.
3. Benioff, V. H. (1951). Global strain accumulation and release as revealed by great earthquakes, Bull. Geol. Soc. Am. 62, 331-338.
4. Benioff, V. H. (1954). Evidence for world-strain readjustment following the Kamchatka earthquake of 4 November 1952, Bull. Geol. Soc. Am. 65, 1332-1333.
5. Bufe, C. G. (1997). 1924-1994: evidence for a global moment release sequence, EOS Trans. AGU 78, F476.
6. Bufe, C. G., and D. J. Varnes (1993). Predictive modeling of the seismic cycle of the greater San Francisco Bay region, J. Geophys. Res. 98, 9871-9883.
7. Bufe, C. G., S. P. Nishenko, and D. J. Varnes (1994). Seismicity trends and the potential for large earthquakes in the Alaska-Aleutian region, Pure Appl. Geophys. 142, Special Issue on Shallow Subduction Zones, 83-99.
8. Cifuentes, I. (1989). The 1960 Chilean earthquakes, J. Geophys. Res. 94, 665-680.
9. Cifuentes, I., and P. Silver (1989). Low-frequency source characteristics of the Great 1960 Chilean earthquake, J. Geophys. Res. 94, 643-663.
10. Cox, C., and B. F. Chao (2002). Detection of large-scale mass redistribution in the terrestrial system since 1998, Science 297, 831-833.
11. Davies, G., and J. Brune (1971). Regional and global fault slip rates from seismicity. Nature Phys. Sci. 229, 101-107.
12. Dickey, J. O., S. L. Marcus, O. de Viron, and I. Fukumori (2002). Recent earth oblateness variations: unraveling climate and postglacial rebound effects, Science 298, 1975-1977.
13. Dziewonski, A. M., G. Ekstrom, and N. N. Maternovskaya (1999). Centroid-moment tensor solutions for October-December 1998, Phys. Earth Planet. Interiors 115, 1-16.
14. Dziewonski, A. M., G. Ekstrom, and N. N. Maternovskaya (2001). Centroid-moment tensor solutions for April-June 2000, Phys. Earth Planet. Interiors 123, 1-14.
15. Hanks, T. C., and H. Kanamori (1979). A moment magnitude scale, J. Geophys. Res. 84, 2348-2350.
16. Kagan, Y. Y., and D. D. Jackson (1991). Long-term earthquake clustering, Geophys. J. Int. 104, 117-133.
17. Kanamori, H., and D. L. Anderson (1975a). Theoretical basis of some empirical relations in seismology, Bull. Seism. Soc. Am. 65, 1073-1095.
18. Kanamori, H., and D. L. Anderson (1975b). Amplitude of the earth's free oscillations and long-period characteristics of the earthquake source, J. Geophys. Res. 80, 1075-1078.
19. Kanamori, H., and J. Cipar (1974). Focal process of the great Chilean earthquake May 22, 1960, Phys. Earth Planet. Interiors 9, 128-136.
20. Keilis-Borok, V. I., and I. M. Rotwain (1990). Diagnosis of time of increased probability of strong earthquake in 12 regions of the world, Phys. Earth Planet. Interiors 61, 57-72.
21. Mogi, K. (1974). Active periods in the world's chief seismic belts, Tectonophysics 22, 265-282.
22. Mogi, K. (1979). Global variation of seismic activity, Tectonophysics 57, T43-T50.
23. Pacheco, J. F., and L. R. Sykes (1992). Seismic moment catalog of large shallow earthquakes, 1900 to 1989, Bull. Seism. Soc. Am. 82, 1306-1349.
24. Piersanti, A., G. Spada, R. Sabadini, and M. Bonafede (1995). Global postseismic deformation, Geophys. J. Int. 120, 544-566.
25. Plafker, G., and J. C. Savage (1970). Mechanism of the Chilean earthquakes of May 21 and 22. 1960, Bull. Geol. Soc. Am. 81, 1001-1030.
26. Pollitz, F. F., R. Burgmann, and B. Romanowicz (1998). Viscosity of oceanic asthenosphere inferred from remote triggering of earthquakes, Science 280, 1245-1249.
27. Romanowicz, B. (1993). Spatiotemporal patterns in the energy release of great earthquakes, Science 260, 1923-1926.
28. Sykes, L. R., and S. C. Jaume (1990). Seismic activity on neighboring faults as a long-term precursor to large earthquakes in the San Francisco Bay area, Nature 348, 595-599.
29. Triep, E. G., and L. R. Sykes (1997). Frequency of occurrence of moderate to great earthquakes in intracontinental regions: Implications for changes in stress, earthquake prediction, and hazards assessment, J. Geophys. Res. 102, 9923-9948.
30. Varnes, D. J. (1989). Predicting earthquakes by analyzing accelerating precursory seismic activity, Pure Appl. Geophys. 130, 661-686.
31. Zachariasen, J., K. Sieh, F. W. Taylor, and W. S. Hantoro (1999). Submergence and uplift associated with the giant 1833 Sumatran subduction earthquake: evidence from coral microatolls, J. Geophys. Res. 104, 895-919.