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JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-SOLID EARTH
Volume 122, Issue 7, Pages 5691-5711Publisher
AMER GEOPHYSICAL UNION
DOI: 10.1002/2017JB014054
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- UCL
- CASE - Geospatial Research Limited
- UCL Institute for Risk and Disaster Reduction
- NERC [NE/P018858/1, NE/I024127/1, NE/I026715/1]
- NERC [NE/I026715/1, NE/P018858/1, NE/I02318X/1, NE/I024127/1] Funding Source: UKRI
- Natural Environment Research Council [NE/I02318X/1, NE/P018858/1, NE/I026715/1, NE/I024127/1] Funding Source: researchfish
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Current studies of fault interaction lack sufficiently long earthquake records and measurements of fault slip rates over multiple seismic cycles to fully investigate the effects of interseismic loading and coseismic stress changes on the surrounding fault network. We model elastic interactions between 97 faults from 30 earthquakes since 1349 A.D. in central Italy to investigate the relative importance of co-seismic stress changes versus interseismic stress accumulation for earthquake occurrence and fault interaction. This region has an exceptionally long, 667 year record of historical earthquakes and detailed constraints on the locations and slip rates of its active normal faults. Of 21 earthquakes since 1654, 20 events occurred on faults where combined coseismic and interseismic loading stresses were positive even though similar to 20% of all faults are in stress shadows at any one time. Furthermore, the Coulomb stress on the faults that experience earthquakes is statistically different from a random sequence of earthquakes in the region. We show how coseismic Coulomb stress changes can alter earthquake interevent times by similar to 10(3) years, and fault length controls the intensity of this effect. Static Coulomb stress changes cause greater interevent perturbations on shorter faults in areas characterized by lower strain (or slip) rates. The exceptional duration and number of earthquakes we model enable us to demonstrate the importance of combining long earthquake records with detailed knowledge of fault geometries, slip rates, and kinematics to understand the impact of stress changes in complex networks of active faults.
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