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Earth Tides Can Trigger Shallow Thrust Fault Earthquakes
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We show a correlation between the occurrence of shallow thrust earthquakes and the occurrence of the strongest tides. The rate of earthquakes varies from the background rate by a factor of 3 with the tidal stress. The highest correlation is found when we assume a coefficient of friction of μ = 0.4 for the crust, although we see good correlation for μ between 0.2 and 0.6. Our results quantify the effect of applied stress on earthquake triggering, a key factor in understanding earthquake nucleation and cascades whereby one earthquake triggers others.
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- Authors
- Cochran, E. S., Vidale, J. E., & Tanaka, S.
- Venue
- Science
- Published
- 2004-11-12
- Volume
- 306
- Issue
- 5699
- Pages
- 1164-1166
- ISSN
- 0036-8075 (ISSN-L)
- 1095-9203
- OpenAlex
- W2006995468
- Cited by
- 395
- References
- 5
- FWCI
- 11.48
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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