Published December 1982
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Tidal triggering of earthquakes
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Heaton, Thomas H.
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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© 1982 by the Seismological Society of America. Manuscript received 17 May 1982. I thank Marcia McNutt, Bruce Julian, and Fred Klein for critically reviewing the manuscript. I also thank Karen Richter Canto and Gary M. Gutierrez for their work in computing and compiling the tidal phases of the earthquakes used in this study.Attached Files
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