Influence of Farallon Slab Loading on Intraplate Stress and Seismicity in Eastern North America in the Presence of Pre‐Existing Weak Zones
Erin Hightower,
Michael Gurnis,
Wei Mao
Abstract:Despite the stability of the continental interior, eastern North America has hosted many significant historical earthquakes. Seismicity concentrates within tectonically inherited structures, which can act as weak zones where stress accumulates. Within these zones, systematic stress rotations may be explained by long‐wavelength sources. We test the hypothesis that mantle‐flow driven by the Farallon slab contributes to intraplate seismicity via the reactivation of pre‐existing faults. We model the stress field u… Show more
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