Communications Earth & Environment (Aug 2021)

Stress relaxation arrested the mainshock rupture of the 2016 Central Tottori earthquake

  • Yoshihisa Iio,
  • Satoshi Matsumoto,
  • Yusuke Yamashita,
  • Shin’ichi Sakai,
  • Kazuhide Tomisaka,
  • Masayo Sawada,
  • Takashi Iidaka,
  • Takaya Iwasaki,
  • Megumi Kamizono,
  • Hiroshi Katao,
  • Aitaro Kato,
  • Eiji Kurashimo,
  • Yoshiko Teguri,
  • Hiroo Tsuda,
  • Takashi Ueno

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-021-00231-6
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 2, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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Rupture during the 2016 Central Tottori earthquake, Japan stopped within regions characterised by stress relaxation before the earthquake, according to analyses of aftershock focal mechanisms. This could explain why large earthquakes typically do not follow each other.