Audin, Laurence and Avouac, Jean-Philippe and Flouzat, Mireille and Plantet, Jean-Louis (2002) Fluid-driven seismicity in a stable tectonic context: The Remiremont fault zone, Vosges, France. Geophysical Research Letters, 29 (6). Art. No. 1091. ISSN 0094-8276. https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:20120907-132803936
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Abstract
Some relocated seismic events, which have small magnitudes (ML < 4.8), are found to align along a 40 km-long fault zone flanking the southern Vosges Massif to the west. It joins to the south with the epicentral area of the historical 1682 earthquake (Io = VIII MSK). The Remiremont cluster was preceded by a period of seismic coalescence and triggered outward of bilateral seismic migration. The 1984 seismic crisis developed along a well defined 3 km-long vertical plane. In both cases, migration rates of the order of 5–10 km/yr over 30 km-long distances are determined. This pattern requires some mechanism of stress interaction which must act over distances of the order of 1 to 20 km within years. Given the low tectonic activity and the magnitudes of the events the stress transfer cannot result from co-seismic elastic loading or from transient strain at depth. We suggest that the seismic activity reflect rupture of asperities driven by fluid-flow in a zone of relatively high permeability.
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| Additional Information: | © 2002 American Geophysical Union. Received 9 February 2001; revised 27 June 2001; accepted 6 September 2001; published 27 March 2002. This paper has benefited from comments by two anonymous reviewers, and from discussions with Marc Nicolas. | |||||||||
| Group: | Seismological Laboratory | |||||||||
| Issue or Number: | 6 | |||||||||
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| Official Citation: | Audin, L., J.-P. Avouac, M. Flouzat, and J.-L. Plantet (2002), Fluid-driven seismicity in a stable tectonic context: The Remiremont fault zone, Vosges, France, Geophys. Res. Lett., 29(6), 1091, doi:10.1029/2001GL012988. | |||||||||
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| Deposited By: | Ruth Sustaita | |||||||||
| Deposited On: | 07 Sep 2012 20:40 | |||||||||
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