Resolution and uncertainties in estimates of earthquake stress drop and energy release

RE Abercrombie - … Transactions of the Royal Society A, 2021 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Our models and understanding of the dynamics of earthquake rupture are based largely on
estimates of earthquake source parameters, such as stress drop and radiated seismic …

Earthquake nests as natural laboratories for the study of intermediate-depth earthquake mechanics

GA Prieto, GC Beroza, SA Barrett, GA López, M Florez - Tectonophysics, 2012 - Elsevier
The physical mechanism of intermediate-depth earthquakes is still under debate. In contrast
to conditions in the crust and shallow lithosphere, at temperatures and pressures …

3D fault architecture controls the dynamism of earthquake swarms

ZE Ross, ES Cochran, DT Trugman, JD Smith - Science, 2020 - science.org
The vibrant evolutionary patterns made by earthquake swarms are incompatible with
standard, effectively two-dimensional (2D) models for general fault architecture. We …

Broadband ground-motion simulation using a hybrid approach

RW Graves, A Pitarka - Bulletin of the Seismological …, 2010 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Abstract<? A3B2 twb=. 3w?> This paper describes refinements to the hybrid broadband
ground-motion simulation methodology of, which combines a deterministic approach at low …

Global variations of stress drop for moderate to large earthquakes

BP Allmann, PM Shearer - Journal of Geophysical Research …, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
We investigate the global variation of earthquake stress drops using spectra of about 2000
events of mb≥ 5.5 between 1990 and 2007. We use an iterative least squares method to …

[HTML][HTML] 中国大陆主要地震活动区中小地震震源参数研究

赵翠萍, 陈章立, 华卫, 王勤彩, 李志雄, 郑斯华 - 地球物理学报, 2011 - html.rhhz.net
本文利用中国大陆几个主要地震活动区近几年积累的大量ML≥ 3.0 数字地震观测记录,
在分别反演得到13 个不同构造研究区域的介质衰减模型, 348 个台站的场地效应的基础上 …

Kinematic ground‐motion simulations on rough faults including effects of 3D stochastic velocity perturbations

R Graves, A Pitarka - Bulletin of the Seismological …, 2016 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
We describe a methodology for generating kinematic earthquake ruptures for use in 3D
ground‐motion simulations over the 0–5 Hz frequency band. Our approach begins by …

Rupture characteristics of major and great (Mw  ≥ 7.0) megathrust earthquakes from 1990 to 2015: 1. Source parameter scaling relationships

L Ye, T Lay, H Kanamori… - Journal of Geophysical …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Source parameter scaling for major and great thrust‐faulting events on circum‐Pacific
megathrusts is examined using uniformly processed finite‐fault inversions and radiated …

Variability of seismic source spectra, estimated stress drop, and radiated energy, derived from cohesive‐zone models of symmetrical and asymmetrical circular and …

Y Kaneko, PM Shearer - Journal of Geophysical Research …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Large variability of earthquake stress drops and scaled energy has been commonly reported
in the literature, but it is difficult to assess how much of this variability is caused by …

A survey of 71 earthquake bursts across southern California: Exploring the role of pore fluid pressure fluctuations and aseismic slip as drivers

JE Vidale, PM Shearer - Journal of Geophysical Research …, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
We investigate the cause of seismicity bursts by examining a waveform‐relocated catalog for
southern California between 1984 and 2002 and systematically identifying 71 isolated …