Advances in Geophysics

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Fault Interaction by Elastic Stress Changes: New Clues from Earthquake Sequences

G. C. P. King

M. Cocco

Introduction

1

(2)

Theoretical Background

3

(8)

Coulomb Failure

3

(3)

Two-Dimensional Case: Coulomb Stress on a Plane of Specified Orientation

6

(1)

Two-Dimensional Case: Change of Coulomb Stress on Optimally Oriented Faults

7

(2)

Three-Dimensional Case: Strike-Slip and Dip-Slip Conditions

9

(1)

Sensitivity to the Main Shock Focal Mechanism

10

(1)

Examples of Coulomb Interactions

11

(7)

Coulomb Stress Changes and Aftershocks

11

(1)

Stress Changes Associated with the Landers Earthquake

12

(1)

Coulomb Stress Changes Preceding the Landers Rupture

12

(1)

Stress Changes Following the Landers Rupture but before the Big Bear Earthquake

13

(1)

Stress Changes Caused by the Landers, Big Bear, and Joshua Tree Ruptures

13

(2)

Interactions between Large Earthquakes: Western Turkey and the Aegean

15

(1)

Close Interactions between Dip-Slip Earthquakes

16

(2)

Summary of Modeling Successes

18

(2)

Summary of Problems and Open Questions

20

(9)

The Role of Static and Dynamic Loading

22

(1)

Rate and State Dependent Friction Laws

23

(3)

Fluid Flow

26

(1)

Creep in the Crust or on Faults

27

(1)

Tectonic Loading

28

(1)

Postseismic Evolution

29

(1)

Social Concerns

29

(1)

Concluding Remarks

30

(9)

References

31

(8)

Seismicity Induced by Mining: Ten Years Later

Slawomir J. Gibowicz

Stanislaw Lasocki

Introduction

39

(1)

Seismic Monitoring

40

(30)

Seismicity in Underground Mines

41

(8)

Monitoring Systems

49

(4)

Location of Seismic Events

53

(6)

Seismic Tomography

59

(6)

Spatial and Temporal Patterns

65

(5)

Geology, Mining, and Seismicity

70

(11)

Mining Operations and Seismicity

71

(5)

Geological Structures and Seismicity

76

(5)

Source Parameters and Scaling Relations

81

(8)

Source Parameters

81

(5)

Scaling Relations

86

(3)

Source Mechanism

89

(13)

Seismic Moment Tensor

90

(6)

Typical Source Mechanism and Complex Rock Failures

96

(3)

Stress Release Mechanism

99

(3)

Source Time Function

102

(3)

Fractals

105

(18)

Assessment and Prediction of Time-Dependent Seismic Hazard: Statistical Approach

123

(36)

Recurrence Relationships: Source Models for Stationary Seismic Hazard Analysis

129

(4)

Time Variations of Energy/Magnitude Distributions

133

(10)

Parameterization of Spatial Distributions of Seismic Events

143

(7)

Rock Mass Instability Concept

150

(3)

Other Studies

153

(3)

Automatic Prediction: Extrapolation of Parameterizations of Seismicity in Mines

156

(3)

Seismic Discrimination

159

(2)

Summary

161

(22)

Acknowledgments

164

(1)

References

164

(19)

Index

183

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