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Nucleation speed limit on remote fluid-induced earthquakes

Overview of attention for article published in Science Advances, August 2017
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Title
Nucleation speed limit on remote fluid-induced earthquakes
Published in
Science Advances, August 2017
DOI 10.1126/sciadv.1700660
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Tom Parsons, Luca Malagnini, Aybige Akinci

Abstract

Earthquakes triggered by other remote seismic events are explained as a response to long-traveling seismic waves that temporarily stress the crust. However, delays of hours or days after seismic waves pass through are reported by several studies, which are difficult to reconcile with the transient stresses imparted by seismic waves. We show that these delays are proportional to magnitude and that nucleation times are best fit to a fluid diffusion process if the governing rupture process involves unlocking a magnitude-dependent critical nucleation zone. It is well established that distant earthquakes can strongly affect the pressure and distribution of crustal pore fluids. Earth's crust contains hydraulically isolated, pressurized compartments in which fluids are contained within low-permeability walls. We know that strong shaking induced by seismic waves from large earthquakes can change the permeability of rocks. Thus, the boundary of a pressurized compartment may see its permeability rise. Previously confined, overpressurized pore fluids may then diffuse away, infiltrate faults, decrease their strength, and induce earthquakes. Magnitude-dependent delays and critical nucleation zone conclusions can also be applied to human-induced earthquakes.

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Unknown 37 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 12 32%
Student > Ph. D. Student 9 24%
Professor 3 8%
Student > Master 3 8%
Student > Doctoral Student 2 5%
Other 5 14%
Unknown 3 8%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Earth and Planetary Sciences 25 68%
Physics and Astronomy 2 5%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 1 3%
Materials Science 1 3%
Engineering 1 3%
Other 0 0%
Unknown 7 19%
Attention Score in Context

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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 17. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 16 September 2017.
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#2,155,031
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