Using strain rates to forecast seismic hazards
Eos, Earth and Space Science News
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Abstract
One essential component in forecasting seismic hazards is observing the gradual accumulation of tectonic strain accumulation along faults before this strain is suddenly released as earthquakes. Typically, seismic hazard models are based on geologic estimates of slip rates along faults and historical records of seismic activity, neither of which records actively accumulating strain. But this strain can be estimated by geodesy: the precise measurement of tiny position changes of Earth’s surface, obtained from GPS, interferometric synthetic aperture radar (InSAR), or a variety of other instruments.
| Publication type | Article |
|---|---|
| Publication Subtype | Journal Article |
| Title | Using strain rates to forecast seismic hazards |
| Series title | Eos, Earth and Space Science News |
| DOI | 10.1029/2017EO067343 |
| Volume | 98 |
| Year Published | 2017 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | American Geophysical Union |
| Publisher location | Washington, D.C. |
| Contributing office(s) | Earthquake Science Center |
| Description | HTML Document |
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