Remotely triggered microearthquakes and tremor in central California following the 2010 <i>M<sub>w</sub></i> 8.8 Chile earthquake

Peng, Zhigang; Hill, David P.; Shelly, David R.; Aiken, Chastity

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We examine remotely triggered microearthquakes and tectonic tremor in central California following the 2010 M_w 8.8 Chile earthquake. Several microearthquakes near the Coso Geothermal Field were apparently triggered, with the largest earthquake (M_l 3.5) occurring during the large-amplitude Love surface waves. The Chile mainshock also triggered numerous tremor bursts near the Parkfield-Cholame section of the San Andreas Fault (SAF). The locally triggered tremor bursts are partially masked at lower frequencies by the regionally triggered earthquake signals from Coso, but can be identified by applying high-pass or matched filters. Both triggered tremor along the SAF and the M_l 3.5 earthquake in Coso are consistent with frictional failure at different depths on critically-stressed faults under the Coulomb failure criteria. The triggered tremor, however, appears to be more phase-correlated with the surface waves than the triggered earthquakes, likely reflecting differences in constitutive properties between the brittle, seismogenic crust and the underlying lower crust.

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70041343

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Peng, Zhigang ; Hill, David P.; Shelly, David R.; Aiken, Chastity

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Geophysical Research Letters

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42.01

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32.53

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-114.13

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6 p.; L24312

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American Geophysical Union

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Remotely triggered microearthquakes and tremor in central California following the 2010 M_w 8.8 Chile earthquake; 2010; Article; Journal; Geophysical Research Letters; Peng, Zhigang ; Hill, David P.; Shelly, David R.; Aiken, Chastity