Cascading and pulse-like ruptures during the 2019 Ridgecrest earthquakes in the Eastern California Shear Zone

Kejie Chen; Jean Philippe Avouac; Saif Aati; Chris Milliner; Fu Zheng; Chuang Shi

doi:10.1038/s41467-019-13750-w

Cascading and pulse-like ruptures during the 2019 Ridgecrest earthquakes in the Eastern California Shear Zone

Kejie Chen^*
, Jean Philippe Avouac
, Saif Aati
, Chris Milliner
, Fu Zheng
, Chuang Shi

^*Corresponding author for this work

School of Space and Earth Sciences

California Institute of Technology
Department of Earth and Space Sciences
Southern University of Science and Technology

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On July 4 2019, a M_w 6.5 earthquake, followed 34 h later by a M_w 7.1 event, struck Searles Valley, California. These events are part of a long-lived cluster of historical earthquakes along the Eastern California Shear Zone (ECSZ) which started in 1872 and are associated with temporarily elevated strain rates. We find that the M_w 6.5 event initiated on a right-lateral NW striking fault and then ruptured a left-lateral fault to the surface. This event triggered right-lateral slip during the M_w 7.1 earthquake. It started as a bilateral, crack-like rupture on a segment brought closer to failure by the M_w 6.5 event. The rupture evolved to pulse-like as it propagated at a relatively slow velocity (2 km/s) along a segment that was unloaded by the M_w 6.5 event. It stopped abruptly at the Coso volcanic area and at the Garlock Fault and brought some neighbouring faults closer to failure.

Original language	English
Article number	22
Journal	Nature Communications
Volume	11
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-13750-w
State	Published - 1 Dec 2020

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