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Common dependence on stress for the two fundamental laws of statistical seismology

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  • Clément Narteau

    (Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris (UMR 7154, CNRS, Univ. P7), 4 Place Jussieu, 75252 Paris Cedex 05, France)

  • Svetlana Byrdina

    (Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris (UMR 7154, CNRS, Univ. P7), 4 Place Jussieu, 75252 Paris Cedex 05, France
    Laboratoire de Géophysique Interne et Tectonophysique, UMR 5559, CNRS, Université de Savoie, IRD, 73376 Le Bourget-du-Lac Cedex, France)

  • Peter Shebalin

    (Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris (UMR 7154, CNRS, Univ. P7), 4 Place Jussieu, 75252 Paris Cedex 05, France
    International Institute of Earthquake Prediction Theory and Mathematical Geophysics, 84/32 Profsouznaya, Moscow 117997, Russia)

  • Danijel Schorlemmer

    (University of Southern California, 3651 Trousdale Parkway, Los Angeles, California 90089, USA)

Abstract

The laws of seismology Clément Narteau and colleagues describe aftershock sequences according to the faulting style of their main shocks and show that the time delay before the onset of a power-law aftershock decay is on average shorter for main shocks with a thrust mechanism than for those associated normal faulting earthquakes (taking intermediate values for strike-slip events). This is a similar dependency on faulting style as previously found for the Gutenberg–Richter relationship, describing the earthquake magnitude–frequency distribution, which indicates that both of these fundamental power laws are governed by the state of stress.

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  • Clément Narteau & Svetlana Byrdina & Peter Shebalin & Danijel Schorlemmer, 2009. "Common dependence on stress for the two fundamental laws of statistical seismology," Nature, Nature, vol. 462(7273), pages 642-645, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:nature:v:462:y:2009:i:7273:d:10.1038_nature08553
    DOI: 10.1038/nature08553
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