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Ross Stein Tom Parsons Fred Pollitz Shinji Toda

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Our most recent papers on stress triggering

link to Pollitz BSSA 2001

F. F. Pollitz,
Stress triggering of the 1999 Hector Mine earthquake by transient deformation following the 1992 Landers earthquake, Bull. Seismol. Soc. Am., 92, 1487-1496 (2002).
[Online article] [Printable article (1.47Mb)]

link to Toda and Stein Coalinga paper

S. Toda and R. S. Stein,
Response of the San Andreas Fault to the 1983 Coalinga-Nuñez Earthquakes: An Application of Interaction-based Probabilities for Parkfield, J. Geophys. Res. 107, 10.1029/2001JB000172, 2002.
[Printable article (3Mb)] ['Editor's Choice' in Science Magazine]
   

Other papers on stress triggering

S. Toda and R. S. Stein,
Response of the San Andreas Fault to the 1983 Coalinga-Nuñez Earthquakes: An Application of Interaction-based Probabilities for Parkfield, J. Geophys. Res. 107, 10.1029/2001JB000172, 2002.
[Printable article (3.3Mb)] ['Editor's Choice' at Science Magazine]
T. Parsons,
Global observation of Omori-law decay in the rate of triggered earthquakes: Large aftershocks outside the classical aftershock zone, J. Geophys. Res., 107, 2199, doi:10.1029/2001JB000646, 2002.
[ Printable article (2.8 Mb)] ['Editor's Choice' at Science Magazine (270 kb)]
T. Parsons,
Post-1906 stress recovery of the San Andreas fault system from 3-D finite element analysis, J. Geophys. Res., 107, 10.1029/2001JB001051, 2002.
[ Printable article (1.2 Mb)] [Journal Highlights at EOS (175 kb)]
USGS-staff,
The Kocaeli, Turkey, earthquake of August 17, 1999, U.S. Geol. Surv. Circular, 1193, pp. 1-65, 2000.
[Online article]
T. Parsons, A. Barka, S. Toda, R. S. Stein and J. H. Dieterich,
Influence of the 17 August 1999 Izmit earthquake on seismic hazards in Istanbul, in A. Barka, O. Kozaci, S. Akyuz and E. Altunel (Eds.), The 1999 Izmit and Duzce Earthquakes: Preliminary results, pp. 295-310, 2000.
[Online article][Printable article (632kb)]
 
S. Toda and R. S. Stein,
Did stress triggering cause the large off-fault aftershocks of the 25 March 1998 Mw=8.1 Antarctic plate earthquake?, Geophys. Res. Letts., 27, pp. 2,301-2,304, 2000.
[Online article][Printable article (340 kb)]
T. Parsons and D. Dreger,
Static-stress impact of the 1992 Landers earthquake sequence on nucleation and slip at the site of the 1999 M=7.1 Hector Mine earthquake, southern California., Geophys. Res. Let., 27, pp. 1949-1952, 2000.
[Online article]
T. Parsons, S. Toda, R. S. Stein, A. Barka and J. H. Dieterich,
Heightened odds of large earthquakes near Istanbul: An interaction-based probability calculation, Science, 288, pp. 661-665, 2000.
[Online article][Printable article (213kb)]
R. S. Stein,
The role of stress transfer in earthquake occurrence, Nature, 402, pp. 605-609, 1999.
[Online article][Printable article (885 kb)]
H. Perfettini, R. S. Stein, R. W. Simpson and M. Cocco,
Stress Transfer by the 1988-89 M=5.3, 5.4 Lake Elsman Foreshocks to the Loma Prieta Fault: Unclamping at the Site of Peak Mainshock Slip, J. Geophys. Res., 104, pp. 20,169-20,182, 1999.
[Online article][Printable article (6.74 Mb)]
T. Parsons, R. S. Stein, R. W. Simpson and P. A. Reasenberg,
Stress sensitivity of fault seismicity: A comparison between limited-offset oblique and major strike-slip faults, J. Geophys. Res., 104, pp. 20,183-20,202, 1999.
[Online article][Printable article (2.04 Mb)]
S. Toda, R. S. Stein, P. A. Reasenberg and J. H. Dieterich,
Stress transferred by the Mw=6.9 Kobe, Japan, shock: Effect on aftershocks and future earthquake probabilities, J. Geophys. Res., 103, pp. 24,543-24,565, 1998.
[Online article]
C. Nostro, R. S. Stein, M. Cocco, M. E. Belardinelli and W. Marzocchi,
Two-way coupling between Vesuvius eruptions and southern Apennine earthquakes (Italy) by elastic stress transfer, J. Geophys. Res., 103, pp. 24,487-24,504, 1998.
[Online article]
R. S. Stein, A. A. Barka and J. H. Dieterich,
Progressive failure on the North Anatolian fault since 1939 by earthquake stress triggering, Geophys. J. Int., 128, pp. 594-604, 1997.
[Online article]
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.
R. S. Stein, J. H. Dieterich and A. A. Barka,
Role of stress triggering in earthquake migration on the North Anatolian fault, Phys. & Chem. of the Earth, 21, pp. 225-230, 1996.
K. M. Hodgkinson, R. S. Stein and G. C. P. King,
The 1954 Rainbow Mountain-Fairview Peak-Dixie Valley earthquakes: A triggered normal faulting sequence, J. Geophys. Res., 101, pp. 25,459-25,471, 1996.
R. S. Stein,
Earthquakes: Characteristic or haphazard? (News and Views), Nature, 378, pp. 443-444, 1995.
R. S. Stein, G. C. P. King and J. Lin,
Stress triggering of earthquakes: evidence for the 1994 M=6.7 Northridge, California, shock, Annali di Geofisica, 37, pp. 1799-1805, 1994.
R. S. Stein, G. C. P. King and J. Lin,
Stress triggering of the 1994 M=6.7 Northridge, California, earthquake by its predecessors, Science, 265, pp. 1432-1435, 1994.
[Online article]
G. C. P. King, R. S. Stein and J. Lin,
Static stress changes and the triggering of earthquakes, Bull. Seismol. Soc. Amer., 84, pp. 935-953, 1994.
[Online article][Printable article (1.99 Mb)]
R. S. Stein, G. C. P. King and J. Lin,
Change in failure stress on the southern San Andreas fault system caused by the 1992 Magnitude=7.4 Landers earthquake, Science, 258, pp. 1328-1332, 1992.
[Online article]
R. S. Stein and M. Lisowski,
The 1979 Homestead Valley earthquake sequence, California: Control of aftershocks and postseismic deformation, Journal of Geophysical Research, 88, pp. 6477-6490, 1983.