Re: Earthquakes Triggering Other Earthquakes – November 30, 2012
Posted by Island Chris on November 30, 2012 at 08:30:19:

Roger and EQF.
It has been pretty much accepted for decades that a strike-slip earthquake on a given fault will advance the time of the next strike-slip earthquake on adjacent segments of the same fault.

Same for subduction zones.

But I'm saying "adjacent". Any affect, and there may be none, or it may delay a quake, across the Pacific (for example) would be small to tiny.

One famous example is that the North Anatolian fault in Turkey failed from east to west in pieces through the 20th century.

A possible, speculative recent example could be the M7 quakes in Ecuador through Central America the last couple of months.

There are simple logical geologic reasons why some of this should be true.

Chris