Decay of aftershock density with distance indicates triggering by dynamic stress
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Static stress triggering explains the empirical aftershock distance decay
The shape of the spatial aftershock decay is sensitive to the triggering mechanism and thus particularly useful for discriminating between static and dynamic stress triggering. For California seismicity, it has been recently recognized that its form is more complicated than typically assumed consisting of three different regimes with transitions at the scale of the rupture length and the thickn...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Nature
سال: 2006
ISSN: 0028-0836,1476-4687
DOI: 10.1038/nature04799