The central United States has undergone a dramatic increase in seismicity over the past 6 years (Fig. 1), rising from an average of 24M ≥3 earthquakes per year in the years 1973–2008 to an average of 193M ≥3 earthquakes in 2009–2014, with 688 occurring in 2014 alone. Multiple damaging earthquakes have occurred during this increase including the 2011M 5.6 Prague, Oklahoma, earthquake; the 2011 M...

Groundwater recharge at Mt. Hood, Oregon, is dominated by spring snow melt which provides a natural largeamplitude and narrow-width pore-fluid pressure signal. Time delays between this seasonal groundwater recharge and seismicity triggered by groundwater recharge can thus be used to estimate large-scale hydraulic diffusivities and the state of stress in the crust. We approximate seasonal variat...

Uturuncu volcano is situated in the Bolivian Andes, directly above world's largest crustal body of silicic partial melt, Altiplano-Puna Magma Body (APMB). last erupted 250,000 years ago, yet seismically active and lies at centre a 70 km diameter uplifted region. Here, we analyse seismicity from 2009 to 2012. Our earthquake locations, using newly developed velocity model, delineate top bottom AP...

The reservoir-induced seismicity (RIS) at the Karkheh dam site with a reservoir capacity of about 7.4x109 meters is investigated. Based on the assessment of the seismicity of the dam site in equal time periods before and after reservoir impoundment, it was found that the number of earthquakes have been tripled after impoundment, while their magnitudes and focal depths become smaller. The averag...

[1] This paper investigates the shallow seismicity occurring in the Taiwan region during the 20th century using a stochastic declustering method that has been developed on the basis of the theory of the epidemic-type aftershock sequence model. It provides a probability based tool to objectively separate the space-time occurrences of earthquakes into a background and a clustering component. On t...

[1] We compute high-precision earthquake locations using southern California pick and waveform data from 1981 to 2005. Our latest results are significantly improved compared to our previous catalog by the following: (1) We locate events with respect to a new crustal P and S velocity model using three-dimensional ray tracing, (2) we examine six more years of waveform data and compute cross-corre...

A number of observations indicate that an upper stability transition occurs along well-developed faults, such as the San Andreas, as a result of unconsolidated gouge within shallow regions of these faults. These observations include the depth distribution of seismicity along faults with and without well-developed gouge zones, correlations between seismicity and shallow crustal structure, and mo...

Gujarat in the Northwestern Deccan Volcanic Province of India is among most seismically earthquake-prone. The region may be susceptible to remote dynamic triggering, especially Kachchh region, which recently hosted M w 7.7 Bhuj earthquake 2001. Its aftershocks continue because it critically stressed and contains nucleation points more frequently close failure. From waveforms catalog data, we ex...

We consider here the interaction of direct and inverse cascades in a hierarchical nonlinear system that is continuously loaded by external forces. The load is applied to the largest element and is transferred down the hierarchy to consecutively smaller elements, thereby forming a direct cascade. The elements of the system fail (i. e., break down) under the load. The smallest elements fail first...