Cascading elastic perturbation in Japan due to the 2012 Mw 8.6 Indian Ocean Earthquake
Abstract
Since the discovery of extensive earthquake triggering occurring in response to the 1992 Mw 7.3 Landers earthquake, it is now well established that seismic waves from earthquakes can trigger other earthquakes, tremor, slow slip, and pore pressure changes. Our contention is that earthquake triggering is one manifestation of a more widespread elastic disturbance that reveals information about Earth’s stress state. Earth’s stress state is central to our understanding of both natural and anthropogenic-induced crustal processes. Here we present that seismic waves from distant earthquakes may perturb stresses and frictional properties on faults and elastic moduli of the crust in cascading fashion. Transient dynamic stresses place crustal material into a metastable state during which material recovers through a process termed slow dynamics. This observation of widespread, dynamically induced elastic perturbation, including systematic migration of offshore seismicity, strain transients, and velocity transients, presents a new characterization of Earth’s elastic system that will advance our understanding of plate tectonics, seismicity, and seismic hazards.
- Authors:
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- Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
- Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA (United States)
- Univ. of Tokyo, Tokyo (Japan)
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1221765
- Report Number(s):
- LA-UR-14-21133
Journal ID: ISSN 2375-2548
- Grant/Contract Number:
- AC52-06NA25396
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Science Advances
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 1; Journal Issue: 9; Journal ID: ISSN 2375-2548
- Publisher:
- AAAS
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 58 GEOSCIENCES; seismology earthquake triggering Japan
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Delorey, A. A., Johnson, P. A., Chao, K., and Obara, K. Cascading elastic perturbation in Japan due to the 2012 Mw 8.6 Indian Ocean Earthquake. United States: N. p., 2015.
Web. doi:10.1126/sciadv.1500468.
Delorey, A. A., Johnson, P. A., Chao, K., & Obara, K. Cascading elastic perturbation in Japan due to the 2012 Mw 8.6 Indian Ocean Earthquake. United States. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.1500468
Delorey, A. A., Johnson, P. A., Chao, K., and Obara, K. Fri .
"Cascading elastic perturbation in Japan due to the 2012 Mw 8.6 Indian Ocean Earthquake". United States. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.1500468. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1221765.
@article{osti_1221765,
title = {Cascading elastic perturbation in Japan due to the 2012 Mw 8.6 Indian Ocean Earthquake},
author = {Delorey, A. A. and Johnson, P. A. and Chao, K. and Obara, K.},
abstractNote = {Since the discovery of extensive earthquake triggering occurring in response to the 1992 Mw 7.3 Landers earthquake, it is now well established that seismic waves from earthquakes can trigger other earthquakes, tremor, slow slip, and pore pressure changes. Our contention is that earthquake triggering is one manifestation of a more widespread elastic disturbance that reveals information about Earth’s stress state. Earth’s stress state is central to our understanding of both natural and anthropogenic-induced crustal processes. Here we present that seismic waves from distant earthquakes may perturb stresses and frictional properties on faults and elastic moduli of the crust in cascading fashion. Transient dynamic stresses place crustal material into a metastable state during which material recovers through a process termed slow dynamics. This observation of widespread, dynamically induced elastic perturbation, including systematic migration of offshore seismicity, strain transients, and velocity transients, presents a new characterization of Earth’s elastic system that will advance our understanding of plate tectonics, seismicity, and seismic hazards.},
doi = {10.1126/sciadv.1500468},
journal = {Science Advances},
number = 9,
volume = 1,
place = {United States},
year = {Fri Oct 02 00:00:00 EDT 2015},
month = {Fri Oct 02 00:00:00 EDT 2015}
}
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