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EARTH & PLANETARY SCIENCE
University of California, Berkeley
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EPS Research Spotlight
EPS graduate student Amanda Thomas, BSL Researcher Bob Nadeau and EPS faculty member Roland Bürgmann identify a robust correlation between extremely small, tidally induced shear stress parallel to the San Andreas fault and non-volcanic tremor activity near Parkfield, California. In their recently published article in Nature (Reprint), they suggest that this tremor represents shear failure on a critically stressed fault in the presence of near-lithostatic pore pressure. UC Berkeley News Release.
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