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Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America; August 1975; v. 65; no. 4; p. 855-864
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Details of microearthquake swarms in the Columbia basin, Washington

STEPHEN D. MALONE, GEORGE H. ROTHE and STEWART W. SMITH

GEOPHYSICS PROGRAM UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON, SEATTLE, WASHINGTON 98195

Abstract

Three microearthquake swarms in the Columbia River basin of eastern Washington have been studied by means of a small portable seismic network. Earthquakes in this area typically occur in swarms, concentrated both temporally and spatially. One unusual characteristic of the three swarms studied was the shallow focal depths of all events. Most events located had depths less than 1 km; none were deeper than 2 km. Composite focal mechanism solutions indicate that more than one fault surface is active in any one swarm. All events had some thrust component with the axis of maximum compression oriented roughly in a north-south direction.




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