Published December 1982 | Version Published
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Tidal triggering of earthquakes

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.

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