Stress evolution following the 1999
Chi-Chi, Taiwan, earthquake: Consequences for afterslip, relaxation,
aftershocks, and departures from Omori decay, revised for Geophys. J. Int.,
(2009) doi: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2008.04069.x
12 May 2008 M=7.9 Wenchuan, China, earthquake calculated to increase failure stress and seismicity rate on three major fault systems, Geophys. Res. Lett., 35, L17305, doi:10.1029/2008GL034903,
2008.
Doser, Diane I., Kim B. Olsen, Fred F. Pollitz, Ross S. Stein, and Shinji Toda,
The 1911 M~6.6 Calaveras earthquake: Source parameters and the
role of static, viscoelastic and dynamic Coulomb stress changes
imparted by the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, in press,
Bull. Seismol. Soc. Amer., 2008
Earthquake Rate Model 2.2 of the 2007 Working Group for California Earthquake Probabilities, Appendix D: Magnitude-Area relationship, U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2007-1162, 2007.
Forecasting probabilistic seismic shaking for greater Tokyo from 400 years of intensity observations, Earthquake Spectra, Volume 23, No. 3, pages 525-546, Doi: 10.1193/1.2753504, 2007. (1) U.S. Geological Survey 345 Middlefield Rd., MS 977 Menlo Park, CA 94025 U.S.A. (2) Now at Geomatrix Consultants, Inc, 2101 Webster Street, CA 94612-3066 (3) Active Fault Research Center, AIST, Tsukuba, Japan
Takuya Nishimura1, Takeshi Sagiya2 and Ross Stein3
Crustal block kinematics and seismic potential of the northernmost Philippine Sea plate and Izu microplate, central Japan, Inferred from GPS and Leveling data, J. Geophys. Res. , 112, doi:10.1029/2005JB004102, 2007 (1) Geographical Survey Institute Geography and Crustal Dynamics Research Center Tsukuba, Japan (2) Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan (3) U.S. Geological Survey 345 Middlefield Rd., MS 977 Menlo Park, CA 94025 U.S.A.
A new 1649–1884 catalog of destructive earthquakes near Tokyo and implications for the long-term seismic process , J. Geophys. Res., 111, doi:10.1029/2005JB004059., 2006 (1) U.S. Geological Survey 345 Middlefield Rd., MS 977 Menlo Park, CA 94025 U.S.A.
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J. Lin and R.S. Stein,
Seismic constraints and Coulomb stress changes of a blind thrust fault system, 1: Coalinga and Kettleman Hills, California, U.S. Geological Survey, Open-File Report, 2006-1149, 17 p., 2006
R. S. Stein1, S. Toda2, T. Parsons1 and E. Grunewald1,3
A new probabilistic seismic hazard assessment for greater Tokyo, Phil. Trans. R. Soc. A, v. 364, pp. 1965-1988, doi:10.1098/rsta.2006.1808, 2006. (1) U.S. Geological Survey 345 Middlefield Rd., MS 977 Menlo Park, CA 94025 U.S.A. (2) Active Fault Research Center, AIST, Tsukuba, Japan (3) Department of Geophysics, Stanford University, USA
Earthquake Conversations, Scientific American, vol. 288, pp. 72-79, January issue,2003.
Also published in: Our Ever Changing Earth, Scientific American, Special Edition, v. 15 (2), pp. 82-89, 2005.
S. Toda, R. S. Stein, K. Richards-Dinger and S. Bozkurt,
Forecasting the evolution of seismicity in southern California: Animations built on earthquake stress transfer, J. Geophys. Res., Vol. 110, B05S16, doi:10.1029/2004JB003415, 2005.
Response of seismicity to Coulomb stress triggers and shadows of the 1999 Mw = 7.6 Chi-Chi, Taiwan, earthquake, J. Geophys. Res., Vol. 110, B05S19, doi:10.1029/2004JB003389, 2005.
J. L. Hardebeck, J. Boatwright, D. Dreger, R. Goel, V. Graizer, K. Hudnut, C. Ji, L. Jones, J. Langbein, J. Lin, E. Roeloffs, R. Simpson, K. Stark, R. S. Stein, J. C. Tinsley.,
Preliminary Report on the 22 December 2003 M6.5 San Simeon, California, Earthquake, Seismological Research Letters, 75, 155-172, 2004.
Stress triggering in thrust and subduction earthquakes, and stress interaction between the southern San Andreas and nearby thrust and strike-slip faults, Journal of Geophysical Research, 109, B02303, doi:10.1029/2003JB002607, 2004
Toggling of seismicity by the 1997 Kagoshima earthquake couplet: A demonstration of time-dependent stress transfer, J. Geophys. Res., 108, B12, 2567, doi: 10.1029/2003JB002527, 2003
Response of the San Andreas Fault to the 1983 Coalinga-Nuñez Earthquakes: An Application of Interaction-based Probabilities for Parkfield, J. Geophys. Res. 107, 10.1029/2001JB000172, 2002.
Did stress triggering cause the large off-fault aftershocks of the 25 March 1998 Mw=8.1 Antarctic plate earthquake?, Geophys. Res. Letts., 27, pp. 2,301-2,304, 2000.
T. Parsons, A. Barka, S. Toda, R. S. Stein and J. H. Dieterich,
Influence of the 17 August 1999 Izmit earthquake on seismic hazards in Istanbul, in A. Barka, O. Kozaci, S. Akyuz and E. Altunel (Eds.), The 1999 Izmit and Duzce Earthquakes: Preliminary results, pp. 295-310, 2000.
Implications for Earthquake Risk Reduction in the United States from the Kocaeli, Turkey, Earthquake of August 17, 1999, U.S. Geol. Surv. Circular 1193 (64 p.), 2000. http://pubs.usgs.gov/circ/2000/c1193/
U.S. Geological Survey (including Tom Parsons and Ross Stein),
The Kocaeli, Turkey, earthquake of August 17, 1999, U.S. Geol. Surv. Circular, 1193, pp. 1-65, 2000.
H. Perfettini, R. S. Stein, R. W. Simpson and M. Cocco,
Stress Transfer by the 1988-89 M=5.3, 5.4 Lake Elsman Foreshocks to the Loma Prieta Fault: Unclamping at the Site of Peak Mainshock Slip, J. Geophys. Res., 104, pp. 20,169-20,182, 1999.
T. Parsons, R. S. Stein, R. W. Simpson and P. A. Reasenberg,
Stress sensitivity of fault seismicity: A comparison between limited-offset oblique and major strike-slip faults, J. Geophys. Res., 104, pp. 20,183-20,202, 1999.
M. Celebi, W. Prescott, R. Stein, K. Hudnut, J. Behr and S. Wilson,
GPS monitoring of dynamic behavior of long-period structures, Earthquake Spectra, 15, pp. 55-66, 1999.
S. Toda, R. S. Stein, P. A. Reasenberg and J. H. Dieterich,
Stress transferred by the Mw=6.9 Kobe, Japan, shock: Effect on aftershocks and future earthquake probabilities, J. Geophys. Res., 103, pp. 24,543-24,565, 1998.
Stress triggering conference opens window to Master Model, Southern California Earthquake Center Newsletter, 4, pp. 3-4, 1998.
R. S. Stein and T. C. Hanks,
M > 6 Earthquakes in Southern California during the Twentieth Century: No Evidence for a Seismicity or Moment Deficit, Bull. Seismol. Soc. Amer., 88, pp. 635-652, 1998.
C. Nostro, R. S. Stein, M. Cocco, M. E. Belardinelli and W. Marzocchi,
Two-way coupling between Vesuvius eruptions and southern Apennine earthquakes (Italy) by elastic stress transfer, J. Geophys. Res., 103, pp. 24,487-24,504, 1998.
G. Marshall, J. Langbein, R. S. Stein, M. Lisowski and J. Svarc,
Inflation of Long Valley Caldera, California, basin and range strain, and possible Mono craters dike inflation from 1990-94 GPS surveys, Geophys. Res. Let., 24, pp. 1003-1006, 1997.
T. H. Dixon, A. Mao, M. Bursik, M. Heflin, J. Langbein, R. S. Stein and F. Webb,
Continuous monitoring of surface deformation at Long Valley Caldera, California, with GPS, J. Geohys. Res., 1997, pp. 1997.
R. S. Stein, J. H. Dieterich and A. A. Barka,
Role of stress triggering in earthquake migration on the North Anatolian fault, Phys. & Chem. of the Earth, 21, pp. 225-230, 1996.
R. S. Stein,
Earthquakes: Being struck by a balance, (News and Views) Nature, 379, pp. 769-770, 1996.
D. P. Schwartz, W. B. Joyner, R. S. Stein, R. D. Brown, A. F. Mcgarr, S. H. Hickman and W. H. Bakun,
Review of seismic-hazard issues associated with the Auburn Dam project, Sierra Nevada foothills, California, U.S. Geol. Surv Open-File Rep., 96-0011, pp. 1-18, 1996.
M. H. Murray, G. A. Marshall, M. Lisowski and R. S. Stein,
The 1992 M=7 Cape Mendocino, California, earthquake: Coseismic deformation at the south end of the Cascadia subduction zone, J. Geophys. Res., 101, pp. 17,707-17,726, 1996.
G. A. Marshall and R. S. Stein,
Elevation changes associated with the earthquake and their use to infer fault-slip geometry, in P. A. Spudich (Eds.), The Loma Prieta, California, earthquake of October 17, 1989: Earthquake Occurrence, U.S. Geol. Surv. Prof. Pap. 1550-A, pp. 105-146, 1996
K. M. Hodgkinson, R. S. Stein, K. W. Hudnut, J. Satalich, A. Lilje and J. Richards,
Repair and restoration of geodetic infrastructure affected by the 1994 Northridge, California earhtquake (including 70-page report, 40" x 60" color map, CD-ROM. slide-set and website), USGS Open File Report, 96-517, pp. 1996.
The 1954 Rainbow Mountain-Fairview Peak-Dixie Valley earthquakes: A triggered normal faulting sequence, J. Geophys. Res., 101, pp. 25,459-25,471, 1996.
Geometry of the 1954 Fairview Peak-DixieValley earthquake sequence from joint inversion of leveling and triangulation data, J. Geophys. Res., 101, pp. 25,437-25,457, 1996.
B. C. Bautista, L. P. Bautista, E. S. Barcelona, R. S. Punongbayan, E. P. Laguerta, A. R. Rasdas, G. Ambubuyong, E. Q. Amin and R. S. Stein,
Relationship of regional and local structures to Mount Pinatubo activity, in R. S. Punongbayan and C. G. Newhall (Eds.), The 1991-1992 eruption of mount Pinatubo, Philippines, pp. 351-370, 1996.
F. H. Webb, M. Bursik, T. Dixon, F. Farina, G. Marshall and R. S. Stein,
Inflation of Long Valley caldera from one year of continuous GPS observations, Geophys. Res. Lets., 22, pp. 195-198, 1995.
R. S. Stein, G. C. P. King and J. Lin,
Stress triggering of earthquakes: evidence for the 1994 M=6.7 Northridge, California, shock, Annali di Geofisica, 37, pp. 1799-1805, 1995.
R. S. Stein,
Earthquakes: Characteristic or haphazard? (News and Views), Nature, 378, pp. 443-444, 1995.
R. S. Stein and W. L. Ellsworth,
Earthquakes: From California to Kobe (News and Views), Nature, 373, pp. 388, 1995.
R. S. Stein,
Northridge Earthquake: Which fault and what next?, Nature, 373, pp. 388-389, 1995.
J. Langbein, D. Dzurisin, G. Marshall, R. S. Stein and J. Rundle,
Shallow and peripheral volcanic sources of inflation revealed by two-color geodeimeter and leveling data from Long valley caldera, California, 1988-92, J. Geophys. Res., 100, pp. 12,487-12,495, 1995.
T. H. Dixon, F. Farina, A. Mao, F. Webb, M. Bursik, G. Marshall and R. S. Stein,
GPS monitoring data for active volcanoes available on Internet, EOS, Transactions AGU, 76 (1), pp. 2, 1995.
T. H. Dixon, A. Mao, M. Bursik, M. Heflin, J. Langbein, R. S. Stein and F. Webb,
Continuous monitoring of surface deformation at Long Valley Caldera, California, with GPS, J. Geophys. Res., 102, pp. 12,017-12,032, 1995.
B. C. Bautista, L. P. Bautista, R. S. Stein, E. S. Barcelona, R. S. Punongbayan, E. P. Laguerta, A. R. Rasdas, G. Ambubuyog and E. Q. Amin,
Relationship of regional and local structures to Mount Pinatubo activity, in R. S. Punongbayan and C. G. Newhall (Eds.), The 1991-1992 Eruptions of Mount Pinatubo, Philippines, pp. in press, 1995.
R. S. Stein, G. C. P. King and J. Lin,
Stress triggering of the 1994 M=6.7 Northridge, California, earthquake by its predecessors, Science, 265, pp. 1432-1435, 1994.
Geodetic leveling observations associated with the October 18, Loma Prieta earthquake and their use to infer fault slip geometry, USGS Open File Report, 94, pp. 1994.
G. C. P. King, R. S. Stein and J. Lin,
Static stress changes and the triggering of earthquakes, Bull. Seismol. Soc. Amer., 84, pp. 935-953, 1994.
The Northridge, California, earthquake of January 1994: a computer animation and a paper model, USGS Open File Report, 94-214, pp. 1994.
R. S. Stein, G. A. Marshall and M. H. Murray,
Permanent ground movement associated with the 1992 M=7 Cape Mendocino, California, earthquake: Implications for damage to infrastructure and hazards to navigation, U.S. Geol. Surv. Open-File Rep., 93-383, pp. 36 p., 1993.
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D. Oppenheimer, G. Beroza, G. Carver, L. Dengler, J. Eaton, L. Gee, F. Gonzalez, A. Jayko, W. H. Li, M. Lisowski, M. Magee, G. Marshall, M. Murray, M. R, B. Romanowicz, K. Satake, R. Simpson, P. Somerville, R. S. Stein and D. Valentine,
The Cape Mendocino, California, earthquakes of April 1992: Subduction at the triple junction, Science, 261, pp. 433-438, 1993.
R. S. Yeats, A. Farah, M. A. Mirza, T. Nakata, M. R. Pandey, R. S. Stein and K. S. Valdiya,
The Himalayan frontal fault system, Annales Tectonicae, Suppl. to Vol. VI, pp. 85-98, 1992.
R. S. Stein, G. C. P. King and J. Lin,
Change in failure stress on the southern San Andreas fault system caused by the 1992 Magnitude=7.4 Landers earthquake, Science, 258, pp. 1328-1332, 1992.
Seismicity and geometry of a 110-km long blind thrust fault, 2, Synthesis of the 1982-85 California earthquake sequence, J. Geophys. Res., 97, pp. 4865-4883, 1992.
G. Ekström, R. S. Stein, J. P. Eaton and D. Eberhart-Phillips,
Seismicity and geometry of a 110-km long blind thrust fault, 1, The 1985 Kettleman Hills, California, earthquake, J. Geophys. Res., 97, pp. 4843-4864, 1992.
R. S. Stein, P. Briole, J.-C. Ruegg, P. Tapponnier and F. Gasse,
Contemporary, Holocene and late Quaternary deformation of the Asal Rift, Djibouti: Implications for the mechanics of slow-spreading ridges, J. Geohys. Res., 96, pp. 21789-21806, 1991.
G. A. Marshall, R. S. Stein and W. Thatcher,
Faulting Geometry and slip from coseismic elevation changes: The 18 October 1989, Loma Prieta, California, earthquake, Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, 81, pp. 1660-1693, 1991.
J. Rundle, T. H. Dixon, C. Goad, E. H. Metzer, J. B. Minster, R. Sailor and R. S. Stein,
Overview and recommendation, in N. A. Press (Eds.), Geodesy in the Year 2000, pp. 176 p., 1990.
B. F. Atwater, J. Tinsley, R. S. Stein, D. A. Trumm, A. B. Tucker, D. J. Donahue, J. T. Jull and L. A. Payen,
Alluvial plains and earthquake recurrence at the Coalinga anticline, USGS Open File Report, 90-1487, pp. 273-297, 1990.
R. S. Stein,
250 manuscript before the mast: Reflections of an outbound editor, EOS, American Geophysical Union Transaction, 70, pp. 729-731, 1989.
R. S. Stein, C. T. Whalen, S. R. Holdahl, W. E. Strange and W. Thatcher,
Reply to ``Comment on `Saugus--Palmdale, California, field test for refraction error in historical leveling surveys' by R.S. Stein, C.T. Whalen, S.R. Holdahl, W. Strange, and W. Thatcher'' and ``Comment on ``Further analysis on the 1981 southern California field test for leveling refraction,'' by M.R. Craymer and P. Vanicek, J. Geohys. Res., 94, pp. 7673-7677, 1989.
R. S. Stein and R. S. Yeats,
Hidden Earthquakes, Sci. Am., 260, pp. 48-57, June, 1989.
Coseismic folding, earthquake recurrence, and the 1987 source mechanism at Whittier Narrows, Los Angeles Basin, California, Journal of Geophysical Research, 94, pp. 9614-9632, 1989.
The 1987 Whittier Narrows earthquake: a metropolitan shock, J. Geohys. Res., 94, pp. 9545-9547, 1989.
R. S. Stein,
Plate tectonics: prediction fulfilled, Physics Today, 41, pp. S41-S44, 1988.
G. C. P. King, R. S. Stein and J. Rundle,
The growth of geological structures by repeated earthquakes, 2: Field examples of continental dip-slip faults, J. Geohys. Res., 93, pp. 13319-13331, 1988.
G. C. P. King, R. S. Stein and J. Rundle,
The growth of geological structures by repeated earthquakes, 1: Conceptual framework, J. Geohys. Res., 93, pp. 13307-13318, 1988.
N. Goldstein and R. S. Stein,
What's new in Long Valley?, J. Geohys. Res., 93, pp. 13187-13190, 1988.
R. S. Stein, C. T. Whalen, S. R. Holdahl, W. E. Strange and W. Thatcher,
Reply to Reiliger, J. Geohys. Res., 92, pp. 10,715-10,717, 1987.
R. S. Stein,
Contemporary plate motion and crustal deformation, Reviews of Geophysics, 25, pp. 855-863, 1987.
R. C. Bucknam and R. S. Stein,
Preface to the collection of papers on the 1983 Borah Peak, Idaho, earthquake, Bull. Seis. Soc. Amer., 77, pp. 691-693, 1987.
S. E. Barrientos, R. S. Stein and S. N. Ward,
Comparison of the 1959 Hebgen Lake, Montana, and the 1983 Borah Peak, Idaho, earthquakes from geodetic observations, Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, 77, pp. 784-808, 1987. (Includes erratum)
R. S. Stein, C. T. Whalen, S. R. Holdahl, W. E. Strange and W. Thatcher,
Saugus-Palmdale, California, Field Test for Refraction Error in Historical Leveling Surveys, Journal of Geophysical Research, 91, pp. 9031 - 9044, 1986.
R. S. Stein,
Evidence for surface folding and subsurface fault slip from geodetic elevation changes associated with the 1983 Coalinga, California, earthquake, USGS Open File Report, 85-44, pp. 225-253, 1985.
R. S. Stein and S. E. Barrientos,
The 1983 Borah Peak, Idaho, earthquake: Geodetic evidence for deep rupture on a planar fault, USGS Open File Report, 85-290, pp. 459-484, 1985.
R. S. Stein and R. C. Bucknam,
Basin and Range viewed from Borah Peak, EOS, American Geophysical Union Transaction, 66, pp. 600-603, 1985.
R. S. Stein and R. C. Bucknam,
Proceedings of Workshop XXVIII on the Borah Peak, Idaho, earthquake, USGS Open File Report, 85-290A and 85-290B, pp. 1985.
R. S. Stein and S. E. Barrientos,
Planar High-Angle faulting in the Basin and Range: Geodetic analysis of the 1983 Borah peak, Idaho, Earthquake, Journal of Geophysical Research, 90, pp. 11355-11366, 1985.
S. E. Barrientos, S. N. Ward, J. R. Gonzales-Ruiz and R. S. Stein,
Inversion for moment as a function of depth from geodetic observations and long period body waves of the 1983 Borah Peak, ID, earthquakes, USGS Open File Report, 85-290, pp. 485-518, 1985.
B. F. Atwater, J. Tinsley, R. S. Stein, D. A. Trumm and S. L. Wert,
Late Holocene floodplains as structural datums across the Coalinga Nose-Guijarral Hills anticline Fresno County, California, USGS Open File Report, 85-44, pp. 437-438, 1985.
R. S. Stein,
Comment on "The impact of refraction correction on leveling interpretation in Southern California", by William E. Strange, J. Geohys. Res., 89, pp. 559-561, 1984.
R. S. Stein,
Coalinga's caveat, EOS, American Geophysical Union Transaction, 65, pp. 791-795, 1984.
R. S. Stein and G. C. P. King,
Seismic potential revealed by surface folding: The 1983 Coalinga, California, earthquake, Science, 224, pp. 869-872, 1984.
Topographic amplification of tectonic displacement: implication for geodetic measurement of strain changes, J. Geohys. Res., 89, pp. 1123-1131, 1984.
R. S. Stein,
Reverse slip on a burried fault during the 2 May 1983 Coalinga earthquake: evidence from geodetic elevation changes, Calif. Div. Mines & Geol., 66, pp. 151-164, 1983.
R. S. Stein, A. G. Lindh, W. Thatcher and M. J. Rymer,
Precise releveling of the Coalinga epicentral region and adjacent portions of the San Andreas Fault, in R. D. Borcherdt (Eds.), The Coalinga earthquake sequence commencing May 2, 1983, pp. 77-78, 1983.
R. S. Stein and M. Lisowski,
The 1979 Homestead Valley earthquake sequence, California: Control of aftershock and postseismic deformation, J. Geohys. Res., 88, pp. 6477-6490, 1983.
R. S. Stein, A. G. Lindh, W. R. Thatcher, M. J. Rymer and R. D. Borcherdt,
Precise releveling of the Coalinga epicentral region and adjacent portions of the San Andreas Fault: The Coalinga, California earthquake sequence commencing May 2, 1983 (preliminary report on field investigations and data collected as of May 12, 1983), USGS Open File Report, 83-511, pp. 77-78, 1983.
G. King and R. S. Stein,
Surface folding, river terrace deformation rate and earthquake repeat time in a reverse faulting environment. The Coalinga California earthquake of May 1983, Calif. Div. Mines & Geol., 66, pp. 165-176, 1983.
R. C. Jachens, W. Thatcher, C. W. Roberts and R. S. Stein,
Correlation of changes in gravity, elevation, and strain in southern California, Science, 219, pp. 1215-1217, 1983.
Seismic and aseismic deformation associated with the 1952 Kern County, California, earthquake and relationship to the Quaternary history pf the White Wolf fault, J. Geohys. Res., 86, pp. 4913-4928, 1981.
R. S. Stein,
Discrimination of tectonic displacement from slope-dependent errors in geodetic leveling from southern California, 1953-1979, in D. W. Simpson and P. G. Richards (Eds.), Earthquake Prediction - An International Review, pp. 441-456, 1981.
R. S. Stein, W. Thatcher and R. O. Castle,
Initiation and development of the Southern California Uplift along its northern margin, in C. A. Whitten, R. Green and B. K. Meade (Eds.), Recent crustal movements, 1977, pp. 301-302, 1979.
R. S. Stein,
Aerodynamics of the Pterosaur wing, Science (letter), 191, pp. 898, 1976.
R. S. Stein,
Dynamic analysis of Pteranodon ingens: A reptilian adaptation to flight, Journal of Palaeontology, 9, pp. 534-548, 1975.
