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Nature Geoscience 1, 375–379 (1 June 2008) | doi:10.1038/ngeo204

Global ubiquity of dynamic earthquake triggering

Aaron A. Velasco , Stephen Hernandez , Tom Parsons & Kris Pankow

Earthquakes can be triggered by local changes in the stress field (static triggering) due to nearby earthquakes or by stresses caused by the passage of surface (Rayleigh and Love) waves from a remote, large earthquake (dynamic triggering). However, the mechanism, frequency, controlling factors and the global extent of dynamic triggering are yet to be fully understood.