The variation of earth tides as a triggering mechanism in earthquakes
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Authors
Corradini, Richard Arthur
Subjects
Earthquakes
Earth tides
Tidal variation
Triggering mechanism
Earth tides
Tidal variation
Triggering mechanism
Advisors
Shudde, Rex H.
Date of Issue
1973-09
Date
September 1973
Publisher
Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School
Language
en_US
Abstract
Earthquake data from Central California over the period January 1, 1969, to December 1971, and from Western Nevada over the period August 31, 1954 to December 1961, have been analyzed to investigate the hypothesis that the Earth tides may be the triggering mechanism for the occurrence of earthquakes. One method used compared the tidal components and the component rate-of-change at the time and location of actual earthquakes to those for random events uniformly generated over the same time period. A second method compared the differences in the Earth tides computed across the breadth of a fault zone at the time of actual earthquakes to the differences at the times of random event uniformly generated over the same time period. Statistical tests were performed to see if the distributions from the actual events were the same as the corresponding distributions from the randomly generated events.
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Department of Operations Research and Administrative Sciences
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Naval Postgraduate School (U.S.)
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This publication is a work of the U.S. Government as defined in Title 17, United States Code, Section 101. Copyright protection is not available for this work in the United States.