On the sensitivity of transtensional versus transpressional tectonic regimes to remote dynamic triggering by Coulomb failure

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 Accumulating evidence, although still strongly spatially aliased, indicates that although remote dynamic triggering of small-to-moderate (Mw<5) earthquakes can occur in all tectonic settings, transtensional stress regimes with normal and subsidiary strike-slip faulting seem to be more susceptible to dynamic triggering than transpressional regimes with reverse and subsidiary strike-slip faulting. Analysis of the triggering potential of Love- and Rayleigh-wave dynamic stresses incident on normal, reverse, and strike-slip faults assuming Andersonian faulting theory and simple Coulomb failure supports this apparent difference for rapid-onset triggering susceptibility.

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Publication type Article
Publication Subtype Journal Article
Title On the sensitivity of transtensional versus transpressional tectonic regimes to remote dynamic triggering by Coulomb failure
Series title Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America
DOI 10.1785/0120140292
Volume 105
Issue 3
Year Published 2015
Language English
Publisher Seismological Society of America
Contributing office(s) Volcano Science Center
Description 10 p.
First page 1339
Last page 1348
Country United States
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