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W. Thatcher, F. Pollitz

Temporal evolution of continental lithospheric strength in actively deforming regions, GSA Today, 2008.

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Doser, Diane I., Kim B. Olsen, Fred F. Pollitz, Ross S. Stein, and Shinji Toda,

The 1911 M~6.6 Calaveras earthquake: Focal mechanism and relationship to static and dynamic Coulomb stress changes imparted by the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, submitted to Bull. Seismol. Soc. Amer., 2007.

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Paramesh Banerjee¹ F. F. Pollitz², B Nagarajan³,and Roland Burgmann⁴

Coseismic slip distributions of the 26 December 2004 Sumatra-Andaman and 28 March 2005 Nias earthquakes from GPS static offsets
⁽¹⁾ Wadia Institute of Himalayan Geology, Dehra Dun, India
⁽²⁾ U.S. Geological Survey 345 Middlefield Rd., MS 977 Menlo Park, CA 94025 U.S.A.
⁽³⁾ Geodetic and Research Branch, Survey of India, Dehra Dun, India
⁽⁴⁾ Dept. Earth and Planetary Sci., UC Berkeley, CA, USA.

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F. F. Pollitz¹, M. J. S. Johnston¹,

Direct Test of Static Stress Versus Dynamic Stress Triggering of Aftershocks
⁽¹⁾ U.S. Geological Survey 345 Middlefield Rd., MS 977 Menlo Park, CA 94025 U.S.A.

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F. F. Pollitz¹,

A New Class of Earthquake Observations,Science, Vol 313, 619-620, 2006
⁽¹⁾ U.S. Geological Survey 345 Middlefield Rd., MS 977 Menlo Park, CA 94025 U.S.A.

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M. Nyst^1,2, N. Hamada³, F. F. Pollitz¹, and W. Thatcher¹

The Stress Triggering Role of the 1923 Kanto Earthquake, submitted to Journal of Geophysical Research, 2005
⁽¹⁾ U.S. Geological Survey 345 Middlefield Rd., MS 977 Menlo Park, CA 94025 U.S.A.
⁽²⁾ Now at Department of Geophysics, Stanford University, Stanford, U.S.A.
⁽³⁾ Seismology and Volcanology Research Department, Meteorological Research Institute Japan, Meteorological Agency, Tsukuba, Japan

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F. Pollitz¹, M. Nyst¹and T. Nishimura ²

Coseismic slip distribution of the 1923 Kanto earthquake, Japan.
Journal of Geophysical Research, 110, B11408, doi:11410.11029/12005JB003638., 2005
⁽¹⁾ U.S. Geological Survey 345 Middlefield Rd., MS 977 Menlo Park, CA 94025 U.S.A.
⁽²⁾ Geographical Survey Institute Geography and Crustal Dynamics Research Center Tsukuba, Japan

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Pollitz, F.F., R. Burgmann, and P. Banerjee,

Post-seismic relaxation following the great 2004 Sumatra-Andaman earthquake on a compressible self-gravitating Earth, Geophys. J. Int., 167, 397-420 (2006), 2006

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Pollitz, F. F., M. Nyst, T. Nishimura, and W. Thatcher,

Inference of postseismic deformation mechanisms of the 1923 Kanto earthquake, J. Geophys. Res., 111, B05408, doi:10.1029/2005JB003901, 2006

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Arnadottir, T., Jonsson, S., Pollitz, F.F., Jiang, W., and Feigl, K.,

Post-seismic deformation following the June 2000 earthquake sequence in the south Iceland seismic zone, J. Geophys. Res., 110, B12308, doi:10.1029/2005JB003701, 2005.

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F.F. Pollitz, P. Banerjee, R. Bürgmann, M. Hashimoto, and N. Choosakul,

Stress changes along the Sunda trench following the 26 December 2004 Sumatra-Andaman and 28 March 2005 Nias earthquakes, Geophysical Research Letters, vol. 33, L06309, Doi:10.1029/2005gl024558, 2006.

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P. Banerjee, F.F. Pollitz, and R. Burgman,

The Size and Duration of the Sumatra-Andaman Earthquake from Far-Field Static Offsets, Science, Vol 308, Issue 5729, 1769-1772, DOI: 10.1126/science.1113746, 2005.

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F. F. Pollitz,

Transient rheology of the upper mantle beneath central Alaska inferred from the crustal velocity field following the 2002 Denali earthquake, Submitted to JGR, 2005.

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M. Nyst, T.Nishimura, F. F. Pollitz, and W. Thatcher

The 1923 Kanto Earthquake Re-evaluated Using a Newly Augmented Geodetic Data Set, Submitted to JGR, 2005.

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F. F. Pollitz, and M. Nyst

A physical model for strain accumulation in the San Francisco Bay region, Geophys. J. Int., 160, 302-317, doi: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2005.02433.x, 2005.

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F. F. Pollitz, W. H. Bakun and M. Nyst

A physical model for strain accumulation in the San Francisco Bay region: Stress evolution since 1838, J. Geophys. Res., VOL. 109, B11408, doi:10.1029/2004JB003003, 2004.

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E. Norabuena, T. H. Dixon, S. Schwartz, H. DeShon, M. Protti, L. Dorman, E. R. Flueh, V. Gonzales, P. Lundgren, A. Newman, F. F. Pollitz, and D. Sampson,

Geodetic and seismic constraints on some seismogenic zone processes in Costa Rica, J. Geophys. Res., 109, B11403, doi: 10.1029/2003JB002931, 2004.

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A. To, R. Burgmann, and F. F. Pollitz

Postseismic deformation and stress changes following the 1819 Rann of Kachchh, India earthquake: Was the 2001 Bhuj earthquake a triggered event? J. Geophys. Res., 31, doi:10.1029/2004GL020220, 2004.

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F. F. Pollitz, M. Vergnolle, and E. Calais

Fault interaction and stress triggering of 20th century earthquakes in Mongolia, J. Geophys. Res., 108, 2503, doi:10.1029/2002JB002375, 2003.

M. Vergnolle, F. F. Pollitz and E. Calais

Constraints on the viscosity of the continental crust and mantle from GPS measurements and postseismic deformation models in Western Mongolia, J. Geophys. Res., 108, 2502, doi:10.1029/2002JB002374, 2003.

C. Thomas, R. A. Livermore, and F. F. Pollitz,

Motion of the Scotia Sea Plates, Geophys. J. Int., 155, 789-305, 2003

F. F. Pollitz,

Transient rheology of the uppermost mantle beneath the Mojave Desert, California, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 215, 89-104, 2003.

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F. F. Pollitz,

Post-seismic relaxation theory on a laterally heterogeneous viscoelastic model. Geophys. J. Int., 154, pp1–22, 2003.

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F. F. Pollitz,

The relationship between the instantaneous velocity field and the rate of moment release in the lithosphere. Geophysical Journal International, 153, pp 595–608, 2003.

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D. P. Hill, F. F. Pollitz and and C. Newhall,

Earthquake - Volcano Interactions. Physics Today, 55, pp. 41-47, S-0031-9228-0211-020-9, 2002.

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F. F. Pollitz, L. Kellogg and R. Burgmann,

Sinking mafic body in a reactivated lower crust: A mechanism for stress concentration at the New Madrid Seismic Zone, Bull. Seismol. Soc. Am., 91, 1882-1897, 2002.

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F. F. Pollitz and I. S. Sacks,

Stress triggering of the 1999 Hector Mine earthquake by transient deformation following the 1992 Landers earthquake, Bull. Seismol. Soc. Am., 92, 1487-1496, 2002.

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F. F. Pollitz, C. Wicks, W. Thatcher

Mantle Flow Beneath a Continental Strike-Slip Fault: Postseismic Deformation After the 1999 Hector Mine Earthquake, Science, 293, pp. 1814-1818, 2001.

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F. F. Pollitz,

Viscoelastic shear zone model of a strike-slip earthquake cycle, J. Geophys. Res., 106, 26541-26560, 2001.

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F. F. Pollitz, G. Peltzer and R. Burgmann,

Mobility of continental mantle: Evidence from postseismic geodetic observations following the 1992 Landers earthquake, J. Geophys. Res., 105, pp. 8035-8054, 2000.

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T. Arnadottir, S. Thornley, F. F. Pollitz and D. J. Darby,

Spatial and temporal strain rate variations at the northern Hikurangi margin, New Zealand, J. Geophys. Res., 104, pp. 4931-4944, 1999.

F. F. Pollitz, R. Burgmann and P. Segall,

Joint estimation of afterslip rate and postseismic relaxation following the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake, J. Geophys. Res., 103, pp. 26975-26992, 1998.

F. F. Pollitz, R. Burgmann and B. Romanowicz,

Viscosity of oceanic asthenosphere inferred from remote triggering of earthquakes, Science, 280, pp. 1245-1249, 1998.

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F. F. Pollitz and T. H. Dixon,

GPS measurements across the northern Caribbean plate boundary zone: Impact of postseismic relaxation following historic earthquakes, Geophys. Res. Let., 25, pp. 2233-2236, 1998.

F. F. Pollitz,

Gravitational-viscoelestic postseismic relaxation on a layered spherical Earth, J. Geophys. Res., 102, pp. 17921-17941, 1997.

F. F. Pollitz and I. S. Sacks,

The 1995 Kobe, Japan, earthquake: A long-delayed aftershock of the offshore 1944 Tonankai and 1946 Nankaido earthquakes, Bull. Seismol. Soc. Amer., 87, pp. 1-10, 1997.

F. F. Pollitz and I. S. Sacks,

Viscosity structure beneath northeast Iceland, J. Geophys. Res., 101, pp. 1996.

F. F. Pollitz,

Coseismic deformation from earthquake faulting on a layered spherical Earth, Geophys. J. Int., 125, pp. 1-14, 1996.

F. F. Pollitz, X. LePichon and Siegfried J. Lallemant,

Shear partitioning near the central Japan triple junction: the 1923 great Kanto earthquake revisited II, Geophys. J. Int., Vol. 126, p.882-892, 1996.

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X. LePichon, F. F. Pollitz, M. Fournier, J.-P. Cadet, S. Lallement and N. Chamont-Rooke,

Distribution of shortening landward and oceanward of the eastern Nankai Trough due to the Izu-Ogasawara Ridge collision, Earth & Planetary Science Letters, 137, pp. 145-156, 1996.

F. F. Pollitz and I. S. Sacks,

Consequences of stress changes following the 1891 Nobi earthquake, Japan, Bull. Seismol. Soc. Amer., 85, pp. 796-807, 1995.