Earthquake stress triggers, stress shadows, and seismic hazard

Many aspects of earthquake mechanics remain an enigma at the beginning of the twenty-first century. One potential bright spot is the realization that simple calculations of stress changes may explain some earthquake interactions, just as previous and ongoing studies of stress changes have begun to e...

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Published in:Current science (Bangalore) 2000-11, Vol.79 (9), p.1215-1225
Main Author: Harris, Ruth A.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Coefficient of friction
Coefficients
Constant coefficients
Earthquakes
Fault planes
Modeling
Seismology
Shear stress
SPECIAL SECTION: SEISMOLOGY 2000
Tectonics
Variable coefficients
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Summary:Many aspects of earthquake mechanics remain an enigma at the beginning of the twenty-first century. One potential bright spot is the realization that simple calculations of stress changes may explain some earthquake interactions, just as previous and ongoing studies of stress changes have begun to explain humaninduced seismicity. This paper, which is an update of Harris1, reviews many published works and presents a compilation of quantitative earthquake-interaction studies from a stress change perspective. This synthesis supplies some clues about certain aspects of earthquake mechanics. It also demonstrates that much work remains to be done before we have a complete story of how earthquakes work.
ISSN:0011-3891