Sgambato, C;
Walker, JPF;
Mildon, ZK;
Roberts, GP;
(2020)
Stress loading history of earthquake faults influenced by fault/shear zone geometry and Coulomb pre-stress.
Scientific Reports
, 10
, Article 12724. 10.1038/s41598-020-69681-w.
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Abstract
Whether the stress-loading of faults to failure in earthquakes appears to be random or to an extent explainable, given constraints on fault/shear-zone interaction and the build-up and release of stress over many earthquake cycles, is a key question for seismic hazard assessment. Here we investigate earthquake recurrence for a system of 25 active normal faults arranged predominantly along strike from each other, allowing us to isolate the effects of stress-loading due to regional strain versus across- and along-strike fault interaction. We calculate stress changes over 6 centuries due to interseismic loading and 25 > Mw 5.5 earthquakes. Where only one fault exists across strike, stress-loading is dominated by the regional tectonics through slip on underlying shear zones and fault planes have spatially smooth stress with predominantly time-dependent stress increase. Conversely, where faults are stress-loaded by across-strike fault interactions, fault planes have more irregular stress patterns and interaction-influenced stress loading histories. Stress-loading to failure in earthquakes is not the same for all faults and is dependent on the geometry of the fault/shear-zone system.
| Type: | Article |
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| Title: | Stress loading history of earthquake faults influenced by fault/shear zone geometry and Coulomb pre-stress |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1038/s41598-020-69681-w |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-69681-w |
| Language: | English |
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| Keywords: | Natural hazards, Solid Earth sciences |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences > Dept of Earth Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences > Inst for Risk and Disaster Reduction |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10111661 |
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