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Science 11 June 1993:
Vol. 260. no. 5114, pp. 1617 - 1623
DOI: 10.1126/science.260.5114.1617
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Seismicity Remotely Triggered by the Magnitude 7.3 Landers, California, Earthquake

D. P. Hill 1, P. A. Reasenberg 1, A. Michael 1, W. J. Arabaz 2, G. Beroza 3, D. Brumbaugh 4, J. N. Brune 5, R. Castro 6, S. Davis 7, D. dePolo 5, W. L. Ellsworth 1, J. Gomberg 8, S. Harmsen 8, L. House 9, S. M. Jackson 10, M. J. S. Johnston 1, L. Jones 11, R. Keller 12, S. Malone 13, L. Munguia 6, S. Nava 2, J. C. Pechmann 2, A. Sanford 14, R. W. Simpson 1, R. B. Smith 2, M. Stark 15, M. Stickney 16, A. Vidal 6, S. Walter 1, V. Wong 6, and J. Zollweg 17

1 U. S. Geological Survey, Menlo Park, CA 94025
2 University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84112
3 Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305
4 Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ 86011
5 University of Nevada, Reno, NV 89557
6 CICESE, Ensenada, Mexico
7 University of Texas, Austin, TX 78712
8 U.S. Geological Survey, Golden, CO.
9 Los Alamos National Laboratories, Los Alamos, NM 87545
10 Idaho National Engineering Laboratory, Idaho Falls, ID 83401
11 U.S. Geological Survey, Pasadena, CA
12 University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, TX 79968
13 University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195
14 New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Socorro, NM 87801
15 Unocal Corporation, Santa Rosa, CA.
16 Montana Bureau of Mines and Geology, Butte, MT 59701
17 Boise State University, Boise, ID 83725

The magnitude 7.3 Landers earthquake of 28 June 1992 triggered a remarkably sudden and widespread increase in earthquake activity across much of the western United States. The triggered earthquakes, which occurred at distances up to 1250 kilometers (17 source dimensions) from the Landers mainshock, were confined to areas of persistent seismicity and strike-slip to normal faulting. Many of the triggered areas also are sites of geothermal and recent volcanic activity. Static stress changes calculated for elastic models of the earthquake appear to be too small to have caused the triggering. The most promising explanations involve nonlinear interactions between large dynamic strains accompanying seismic waves from the mainshock and crustal fluids (perhaps including crustal magma).

Submitted on February 8, 1993
Accepted on May 3, 1993


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