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EARTHQUAKE ›› 2006, Vol. 26 ›› Issue (3): 26-36.

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Dynamic stress triggering of three subsequent moderately strong earthquakes in China's mainland following the Indonesia MS8.7 Earthquake

HAO Ping1, LIU Jie2, HAN Zhu-jun3, FU Zheng-xiang1   

  1. 1. Institute of Earthquake Science, CEA, Beijing 100036;
    2. China Earthquake Networks Center, CEA, Beijing 100036;
    3. Institute of Geology, CEA, Beijing 100029, China
  • Received:2006-03-13 Revised:2006-04-18 Published:2021-11-01

Abstract: In two months after Indonesia MS8.7 earthquake, three moderately strong earthquakes (December 26, 2004 MS5.1 Shuangbai earthquake, January 26, 2005 MS5.1 Simao earthquake and February 15, 2005 MS6.2 Wushi earthquake) occurred in China' mainland. Is there triggering relation between Indonesia MS8.7 Earthquake and the three subsequent earthquakes? In this article we calculate the static and dynamic Coulomb stress changes in failure planes of the three subsequent earthquakes for Indonesia MS8.7 Earthquake. The value of static stress change is smaller than the threshold one of triggering value (0.01 MPa);The peak change of dynamic stress is about 10-1 MPa. So the change of dynamic stress is probably the triggering factor of the three subsequent earthquakes.

Key words: Dynamic stress triggering, Coulomb failure stress, Indonesia MS8.7 Earthquake

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