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Earthquake Induced Seismicity: Evidence from the Ms7.4 Landers, Earthquake and The Geysers Geothermal Field, California

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Earthquakes Induced by Underground Nuclear Explosions

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Abstract

Recent definitive observations imply a causal relationship between earthquakes separated by distances greater than a thousand kilometers. These include a dramatic episode of widespread seismicity following the 1992 Ms7.4 Landers, California earthquake [Hill et al,1993] and a striking correlation between large distant earthquakes and swarm activity at The Geysers geothermal field, California [Stark and Davis, 1995] (Fig. 1). This study seeks a better understanding of the physical mechanisms underlying these observations and more generally, how strain changes may initiate (trigger) rupture and increase seismicity.

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  1. U.S. Geological Survey Center for Earthquake Research and Information, The University of Memphis, Memphis, TN, 38152, USA

    Joan Gomberg

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  1. Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica, Via di Vigna Murata 605, Roma, 1-00143, Italy

    Rodolfo Console

  2. Institute of Experimental Geophysics, RAS, 51 Nikoloyamskaya St., Moscow, 109004, Russia

    Alexei Nikolaev

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Gomberg, J. (1995). Earthquake Induced Seismicity: Evidence from the Ms7.4 Landers, Earthquake and The Geysers Geothermal Field, California. In: Console, R., Nikolaev, A. (eds) Earthquakes Induced by Underground Nuclear Explosions. NATO ASI Series, vol 4. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-57764-2_16

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