Variations in earthquake-size distribution across different stress regimes

By Danijel Schorlemmer, Stefan Wiemer, M. Wyss. Nature, 2005

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B‐Positive: A Robust Estimator of Aftershock Magnitude Distribution in Transiently Incomplete Catalogs (2021, background): “It has also been argued that b-value may carry diagnostic information about the state of stress on the faults generating the earthquakes (Amitrano, 2003; Gulia et al., 2018; Scholz, 2015; Schorlemmer et al., 2005; Spada et al., 2013).”
Acoustic emissions document stress changes over many seismic cycles in stick‐slip experiments (2013, background): “[15] The observed connection between decreasing b values and increasing differential stresses substantiates previous findings of a b value-stress dependence [Scholz, 1968; Amitrano, 2003; Schorlemmer et al., 2005].”
On the stress dependence of the earthquake b value (2015, background): “It has also been found that b value depends systematically on earthquake focal mechanism, being smaller for thrust than for normal faulting events and having an intermediate value for strike-slip earthquakes [Gulia and Wiemer, 2010; Schorlemmer et al., 2005].”
Fluid‐faulting evolution in high definition: Connecting fault structure and frequency‐magnitude variations during the 2014 Long Valley Caldera, California, earthquake swarm (2016, background): “Several studies have suggested that b values are influenced by stress levels, in particular differential stress [e.g., Scholz, 1968; Wyss, 1973; Schorlemmer et al., 2005], while other studies have emphasized the role of material heterogeneity [e.g., Mogi, 1962; Mori and Abercrombie, 1997].”
Data‐driven spatial b value estimation with applications to California seismicity: To b or not to b (2015, background): “…for physical interpretation of various faulting regimes [Wiemer and Wyss, 1997, 2002], as a proxy for shear stress and pore pressure [Scholz, 1968; Schorlemmer et al., 2005; Bachmann et al., 2012], as an indicator of material heterogeneity [Mogi, 1962; Mori and Abercrombie, 1997], or even as…”
Generic dependence of the frequency‐size distribution of earthquakes on depth and its relation to the strength profile of the crust (2013, background): “from Waldhauser and Schaff [2008], covering 1984–2009, and the waveform relocated southern Californian catalog (SCAL) from 1981 to 2011 (Hauksson et al.”