Coulomb pre-stress and fault bends are ignored yet vital factors for earthquake triggering and hazard

ZK Mildon, GP Roberts, JP Faure Walker… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Successive locations of individual large earthquakes (M w> 5.5) over years to centuries can
be difficult to explain with simple Coulomb stress transfer (CST) because it is common for …

Evaluating models of Coulomb stress transfer: Is variable fault geometry important?

ZK Mildon, S Toda, JP Faure Walker… - Geophysical …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
To determine the importance of receiver fault geometry in Coulomb stress calculations a
new methodology is presented to model faults with variable geometry. Although most …

Interseismic strain rate distribution model of the Altyn Tagh Fault constrained by InSAR and GPS

C Liu, L Ji, L Zhu, C Xu, J Qiu - Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 2024 - Elsevier
Abstract The Altyn Tagh Fault (ATF) plays a pivotal role in determining the structural
deformation patterns of the Tibetan Plateau. However, our current understanding of present …

Stress transfer along the western boundary of the Bayan Har Block on the Tibet Plateau from the 2008 to 2020 Yutian earthquake sequence in China

K Jia, S Zhou, J Zhuang, C Jiang - Geophysical Research …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Eight Ml≥ 7.0 earthquakes have occurred around the Bayan Har block, NW Tibet, China,
since 2000, resulting in a large number of casualties. Near the western boundary of the …

Normal faulting in the 2020 Mw 6.2 Yutian event: Implications for ongoing E–W thinning in Northern Tibet

P He, Y Wen, K Ding, C Xu - Remote Sensing, 2020 - mdpi.com
Extensional earthquakes in the Tibetan Plateau play an important role in the plateau's
orogenic evolution and cause heavy seismic hazard, yet their mechanisms remain poorly …

Variability in interseismic strain accumulation rate and style along the Altyn Tagh Fault

L Shen, A Hooper, JR Elliott, TJ Wright - Nature Communications, 2024 - nature.com
Major strike-slip faults that develop between strong and weaker regions are thought to focus
along narrow shear zones at the rheological boundary. Here we present the InSAR-derived …

The July 2020  6.3 Nima Earthquake, Central Tibet: A Shallow Normal‐Faulting Event Rupturing in a Stepover Zone

J Yang, C Xu, Y Wen, G Xu - Seismological Society of …, 2022 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
On 22 July 2020, an M w 6.3 earthquake with a predominantly normal‐faulting mechanism
struck the Yibug Caka fault zone, central Tibet, where the overall tectonic environment is …

Source Model of the 2014  6.9 Yutian Earthquake at the Southwestern End of the Altyn Tagh Fault in Tibet Estimated from Satellite Images

X Li, W Xu, S Jónsson, Y Klinger… - … Society of America, 2020 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Multiple fault segments ruptured during the 2014 Yutian earthquake, but the detailed source
parameters and the mechanism of rupture complexity remain poorly understood. Here, we …

Co‐ and Post‐Seismic Mechanisms of the 2020 Mw 6.3 Yutian Earthquake and Local Stress Evolution

Z Liu, C Yu, Z Li, X Zhang, M Zhang… - Earth and Space …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The Mw 6.3 Yutian earthquake, occurred in northwestern Tibet on 25 June 2020, is
one of the major events sequentially occurring in the region following the 2008 Mw 7.2, 2012 …

Geodetic imaging of late postseismic lower crustal flow in Tibet

I Ryder, H Wang, L Bie, A Rietbrock - Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 2014 - Elsevier
Integral to understanding past and present seismotectonic activity in orogenic zones is
whether any part of the lower crust is weak enough to flow, since a weak zone at depth …