The transfer of slip between two en echelon strike-slip faults: A case study from the 1992 Landers earthquake, southern California

1995 ◽  
Vol 100 (B8) ◽  
pp. 15281-15301 ◽  
Author(s):  
Judith Zachariasen ◽  
Kerry Sieh
Keyword(s):  
Southern California ◽  
Strike Slip ◽  
Landers Earthquake ◽  
1992 Landers Earthquake

scholarly journals Continuous monitoring of seismic energy release associated with the 1994 Northridge earthquake and the 1992 Landers earthquake

1996 ◽  
Vol 86 (1A) ◽  
pp. 255-258 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sharon Kedar ◽  
Hiroo Kanamori
Keyword(s):  
Frequency Band ◽  
Southern California ◽  
Seismic Energy ◽  
Northridge Earthquake ◽  
Time Frequency ◽  
Landers Earthquake ◽  
Long Period ◽  
1992 Landers Earthquake ◽  
Large Earthquakes ◽  
1994 Northridge Earthquake

Abstract We have developed a method to detect long-period precursors for large earthquakes observed in southern California, if they occur. The method allows us to continuously monitor seismic energy radiation over a wide frequency band to investigate slow deformation in the crust (e.g., slow earthquakes), especially before large earthquakes. We used the long-period records (1 sample/sec) from TERRAscope, a broadband seismic network in southern California. The method consists of dividing the record into a series of overlapping 30-min-long windows, computing the spectra over a frequency band of 0.00055 to 0.1 Hz, and plotting them in the form of a time-frequency diagram called spectrogram. This procedure is repeated daily over a day-long record. We have analyzed the 17 January 1994 Northridge earthquake (Mw = 6.7), and the 28 June 1992 Landers earthquake (Mw = 7.3). No slow precursor with spectral amplitude measured over a duration of 30 min larger than that of a magnitude 3.7 was detected prior to either event. In other words, there was no precursor whose moment was larger than ∼0.003% of the mainshock.

Changes in static stress on southern California faults after the 1992 Landers earthquake

Nature ◽  
1992 ◽  
Vol 360 (6401) ◽  
pp. 251-254 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ruth A. Harris ◽  
Robert W. Simpson
Keyword(s):  
Southern California ◽  
Static Stress ◽  
Landers Earthquake ◽  
1992 Landers Earthquake
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