Keyword

aftershocks

Description: Smaller earthquakes occurring after a larger mainshock in the same general region as the crust adjusts to the changed stresses.

Primary topic: earthquake and tectonic studies (62%)

Wikidata ID: wiki/Q308442

OpenAlex ID: keywords/aftershocks

Determination of earthquake source parameters from waveform data for studies of global and regional seismicity

1981 · A. M. Dziewonski, T.‐A. Chou, et al. · Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres · 3,197

Is the sequence of earthquakes in Southern California, with aftershocks removed, Poissonian?

1974 · J. K. Gardner, L. Knopoff · Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America · 1,779

The role of stress transfer in earthquake occurrence

1999 · Ross S. Stein · Nature · 1,750

Model and theoretical seismicity

1967 · R. Burridge, L. Knopoff · Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America · 1,474

An improved method for determining the regional stress tensor using earthquake focal mechanism data: Application to the San Fernando Earthquake Sequence

1984 · John W. Gephart, Donald W. Forsyth · Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres · 1,225

Strike‐slip fault geometry in Turkey and its influence on earthquake activity

1988 · A. A. Barka, K. Kadinsky‐Cade · Tectonics · 1,085

Mechanics of discontinuous faults

1980 · P. Segall, D. D. Pollard · Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres · 1,071

A statistical study on the occurrence of aftershocks.

1961 · Tokuji Utsu · Geophysical Magazine · 1,051

Analysis of the seismic coda of local earthquakes as scattered waves

1969 · Keiiti Aki · Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres · 995

The Mechanics of Earthquakes and Faulting

2018 · Christopher H. Scholz · Cambridge University Press eBooks · 914

Seismicity Remotely Triggered by the Magnitude 7.3 Landers, California, Earthquake

1993 · D. P. Hill, P. A. Reasenberg, et al. · Science · 914

Earthquake aftershocks as Green's functions

1978 · Stephen H. Hartzell · Geophysical Research Letters · 886

Aftershocks driven by a high-pressure CO2 source at depth

2004 · Stephen A. Miller, Cristiano Collettini, et al. · Nature · 871

Time-dependent friction in rocks

1972 · James H. Dieterich · Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres · 816

An experiment in systematic study of global seismicity: Centroid‐moment tensor solutions for 201 moderate and large earthquakes of 1981

1983 · Adam M. Dziewonski, John H. Woodhouse · Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres · 729

Unified Scaling Law for Earthquakes

2002 · Per Bak, Kim Christensen, et al. · Physical Review Letters · 700

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On the after-shocks of earthquakes

1894 · F. Omori · Institutional Repositories DataBase (IRDB) · 692

Stress transferred by the 1995 M w = 6.9 Kobe, Japan, shock: Effect on aftershocks and future earthquake probabilities

1998 · Shinji Toda, Ross S. Stein, et al. · Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres · 631

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Earthquake rupturing as a mineralizing agent in hydrothermal systems

1987 · Richard H. Sibson · Geology · 584

Aftershocks Caused by Pore Fluid Flow?

1972 · Amos Nur, John R. Booker · Science · 583

Geomorphic and geologic controls of geohazards induced by Nepal’s 2015 Gorkha earthquake

2015 · J. S. Kargel, G. J. Leonard, et al. · Science · 568

A comparison and test of various site-response estimation techniques, including three that are not reference-site dependent

1995 · E. H. Field, Klaus Jacob · Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America · 567

Teleseismic b values; Or, much ado about 1.0

1993 · Cliff Frohlich, Scott D. Davis · Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres · 540

Lower edge of locked Main Himalayan Thrust unzipped by the 2015 Gorkha earthquake

2015 · Jean-Philippe Avouac, Lingsen Meng, et al. · Nature Geoscience · 512

Objective Determination of Source Parameters and Similarity of Earthquakes of Different Size

2011 · D. J. Andrews · Geophysical monograph · 505

Works count: 10,900

Citation count: 151,900