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Cruz-Atienza VM, Tago J, Villafuerte C, Wei M, Garza-Girón R, Dominguez LA, Kostoglodov V, Nishimura T, Franco SI, Real J, Santoyo MA, Ito Y, Kazachkina E. Short-term interaction between silent and devastating earthquakes in Mexico. Nat Commun 2021; 12:2171. [PMID: 33846327 PMCID: PMC8042113 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-021-22326-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/15/2020] [Accepted: 03/11/2021] [Indexed: 02/01/2023] Open
Abstract
Either the triggering of large earthquakes on a fault hosting aseismic slip or the triggering of slow slip events (SSE) by passing seismic waves involve seismological questions with important hazard implications. Just a few observations plausibly suggest that such interactions actually happen in nature. In this study we show that three recent devastating earthquakes in Mexico are likely related to SSEs, describing a cascade of events interacting with each other on a regional scale via quasi-static and/or dynamic perturbations across the states of Guerrero and Oaxaca. Such interaction seems to be conditioned by the transient memory of Earth materials subject to the "traumatic" stress produced by seismic waves of the great 2017 (Mw8.2) Tehuantepec earthquake, which strongly disturbed the SSE cycles over a 650 km long segment of the subduction plate interface. Our results imply that seismic hazard in large populated areas is a short-term evolving function of seismotectonic processes that are often observable.
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Affiliation(s)
- V. M. Cruz-Atienza
- grid.9486.30000 0001 2159 0001Instituto de Geofísica, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, Mexico
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- grid.9486.30000 0001 2159 0001Facultad de Ingeniería, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, Mexico
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- grid.9486.30000 0001 2159 0001Posgrado en Ciencias de la Tierra, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, Mexico
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- grid.20431.340000 0004 0416 2242Graduate School of Oceanography, University of Rhode Island, Narragansett, USA
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- grid.205975.c0000 0001 0740 6917Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, University of California, Santa Cruz, USA
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- grid.9486.30000 0001 2159 0001Escuela Nacional de Estudios Superiores, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Morelia, Mexico
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- grid.9486.30000 0001 2159 0001Instituto de Geofísica, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, Mexico
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- grid.258799.80000 0004 0372 2033Disaster Prevention Research Institute, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan
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- grid.9486.30000 0001 2159 0001Instituto de Geofísica, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, Mexico
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- grid.9486.30000 0001 2159 0001Instituto de Geofísica, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, Mexico
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- grid.9486.30000 0001 2159 0001Instituto de Geofísica, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, Mexico
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- grid.258799.80000 0004 0372 2033Disaster Prevention Research Institute, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan
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- grid.9486.30000 0001 2159 0001Posgrado en Ciencias de la Tierra, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, Mexico
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Ruiz-Barajas S, Santoyo MA, Benito Oterino MB, Alvarado GE, Climent A. Stress transfer patterns and local seismicity related to reservoir water-level variations. A case study in central Costa Rica. Sci Rep 2019; 9:5600. [PMID: 30944382 PMCID: PMC6447625 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-019-41890-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/17/2018] [Accepted: 03/04/2019] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
Abstract
This study main aim was to analyse the spatio-temporal trend in seismicity recorded in the proximity of the Pirrís Reservoir (central Costa Rica), where impoundment for the purposes of filling the reservoir to its total volume (3,6 * 107 m3) started in 2011. We differentiated between the events that occurred before, during and after this filling operation. Using a seismic analysis, we sought to define and understand the effects which such reservoir operations have on seismic activity in the area. To this end, we evaluated the spatio-temporal evolution of Coulomb failure stress (ΔCFS) changes due to surface water load, and its correlation with seismicity. Overall, the results of this study provide a perspective of how the water load in the reservoir can affect the stress state in the close area. In our study case, we have detected: an increase in b-value after impoundment, an increment of rate for shallowest events (h ≤ 10 km), an increasing trend of higher magnitude events and a possible trigger effect on local faults. All these aspects could be useful to control the reservoir operations and to help in decision making in order to guarantee the safety of these critical emplacements.
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Affiliation(s)
- S Ruiz-Barajas
- Dpto. Ingeniería Topográfica y Cartografía, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Madrid, Spain.
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- Instituto de Geofísica, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Campus Morelia (México), Morelia, Mexico
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- Dpto. Ingeniería Topográfica y Cartografía, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
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- Área de Amenazas y Auscultación Sismológica y Volcánica, Instituto Costarricense de Electricidad (ICE), San José, Costa Rica
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- Área de Amenazas y Auscultación Sismológica y Volcánica, Instituto Costarricense de Electricidad (ICE), San José, Costa Rica
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