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Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America; December 1982; v. 72; no. 6A; p. 2181-2200
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Tidal triggering of earthquakes

THOMAS H. HEATON

U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY SEISMOLOGICAL LABORATORY, 252-21 CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, PASADENA, CALIFORNIA 91125

Abstract

Analysis of the tidal stress tensor at the time of moderate to large earthquakes fails to confirm an earlier hypothesis that the origin times of shallow dip-slip earthquakes correlate with solid-earth tidal shear stress. Furthermore, no correlation is seen for either tidal shear stress or tidal normal-to-the-fault compressive stress with shallow strike-slip earthquakes or with deep earthquakes.






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