Resolution and uncertainties in estimates of earthquake stress drop and energy release

RE Abercrombie - … Transactions of the Royal Society A, 2021 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Our models and understanding of the dynamics of earthquake rupture are based largely on
estimates of earthquake source parameters, such as stress drop and radiated seismic …

Does earthquake stress drop increase with depth in the crust?

RE Abercrombie, DT Trugman… - Journal of …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
We combine earthquake spectra from multiple studies to investigate whether the increase in
stress drop with depth often observed in the crust is real, or an artifact of decreasing …

Improved stress drop estimates for M 1.5 to 4 earthquakes in southern California from 1996 to 2019

PM Shearer, RE Abercrombie… - Journal of Geophysical …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
We estimate Brune‐type stress drops for over 70,000 southern California M 1.5–4
earthquakes from 1996 to 2019 using a P‐wave spectral decomposition approach. Based …

Fault interactions enhance high‐frequency earthquake radiation

SX Chu, VC Tsai, DT Trugman… - Geophysical Research …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Fault complexity has been linked to high‐frequency earthquake radiation, although the
underlying physical mechanisms are not well understood. Fault complexity is commonly …

GrowClust3D. jl: A Julia package for the relative relocation of earthquake hypocenters using 3D velocity models

DT Trugman, CJ Chamberlain… - … Society of America, 2023 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Relative relocation techniques are widely used to improve the resolution of earthquake
hypocenter positions. Here, we present GrowClust3D. jl—an open‐source software package …

A comprehensive stress drop map from trench to depth in the northern Chilean subduction zone

J Folesky, CN Pennington… - … Research: Solid Earth, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
We compute stress drops for earthquakes in Northern Chile recorded between 2007 and
2021. By applying two analysis techniques,(a) the spectral ratio (SR) method and (b) the …

Impact of geometric spreading in the Fourier domain on source spectra: Observations of steep amplitude decay and frequency dependence from the 2019 Ridgecrest …

GM Atkinson - Bull. Seismol. Soc. Am., 2024 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
This study characterizes the impact of attenuation on source spectra for events of the 2019
Ridgecrest, California, sequence, for M∼ 4–7 at distances from∼ 5 to 400 km. Fourier …

Capturing broadband spectral characteristics of moderate-sized earthquakes using nearby recordings: A case study of 42 Mw 4.0-5.4 Ridgecrest earthquakes

C Ji, R Archuleta, A Peyton - Bull. Seismol. Soc. Am, 2024 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Characterizing the information in earthquake source spectra requires three measures:
seismic moment M0, apparent stress σa, and stress parameter ΔσB. We estimate σa and …

Stress drops of intermediate‐depth and deep earthquakes in the Tonga slab

D Tian, SS Wei, W Wang, F Wang - Journal of Geophysical …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Multiple physical mechanisms have been proposed to explain the cause of intermediate‐
depth and deep earthquakes, but they are still under debate. Source parameters such as …

Spatio‐temporal evolution of earthquake static stress drop values in the 2016–2017 central Italy seismic sequence

KB Kemna, A Verdecchia… - Journal of Geophysical …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The static stress drop of an earthquake is an indicator of the stress state of a specific fault
before rupture initiation. The stress state is primarily controlled by the ambient stress field …