Short-term interaction between silent and devastating earthquakes in Mexico

• Published in: Nature communications Vol. 12; no. 1; pp. 2171 - 14
• Main Authors: Cruz-Atienza, V. M., Tago, J., Villafuerte, C., Wei, M., Garza-Girón, R., Dominguez, L. A., Kostoglodov, V., Nishimura, T., Franco, S. I., Real, J., Santoyo, M. A., Ito, Y., Kazachkina, E.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: London Nature Publishing Group UK 12.04.2021; Nature Publishing Group; Nature Portfolio
• Subjects: 704/2151/508; 704/2151/562; 704/4111; Earthquakes; Humanities and Social Sciences; Mechanical properties; multidisciplinary; Perturbation; Plates (tectonics); Regional analysis; Science; Science (multidisciplinary); Seismic activity; Seismic hazard; Seismic waves; Slip; Subduction (geology); Mexico

Either the triggering of large earthquakes on a fault hosting aseismic slip or the triggering of slow slip events (SSE) by passing seismic waves involve seismological questions with important hazard implications. Just a few observations plausibly suggest that such interactions actually happen in nat...