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Prejean, S., Stork, A., Ellsworth, W., Hill, D. and Julian, B. (2003). High precision earthquake locations reveal seismogenic structure beneath Mammoth Mountain, California. Geophysical Research Letters 30: doi: 10.1029/2003GL018334. issn: 0094-8276. |
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In 1989, an unusual earthquake swarm occurred beneath Mammoth Mountain that was probably associated with magmatic intrusion. To improve our understanding of this swarm, we relocated Mammoth Mountain earthquakes using a double difference algorithm. Relocated hypocenters reveal that most earthquakes occurred on two structures, a near-vertical plane at 7--9 km depth that has been interpreted as an intruding dike, and a circular ring-like structure at ~5.5 km depth, above the northern end of the inferred dike. Earthquakes on this newly discovered ring structure form a conical section that dips outward away from the aseismic interior. Fault-plane solutions indicate that in 1989 the seismicity ring was slipping as a ring-normal fault as the center of the mountain rose with respect to the surrounding crust. Seismicity migrated around the ring, away from the underlying dike at a rate of ~0.4 km/month, suggesting that fluid movement triggered seismicity on the ring fault. |
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Keywords
Seismology, Earthquake dynamics and mechanics, Seismology, Seismicity and seismotectonics, Seismology, Volcano seismology, Seismology, General or miscellaneous, Volcanology, General or miscellaneous |
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American Geophysical Union 2000 Florida Avenue N.W. Washington, D.C. 20009-1277 USA 1-202-462-6900 1-202-328-0566 service@agu.org |
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