The Radiated Seismic Energy and Apparent
Stress of Interplate and Intraslab Earthquakes at Subduction Zone Environments:
Implications for Seismic Hazard Estimation
Open-File Report 01-0005
Figure 3.
Global patterns of energy release for all large (ES >
1010 N× m) shallow thrust-fault earthquakes that occurred
between 1988-1991. The characteristic apparent stress, t c,
is indicated for those seismic regions where the geometric spread about the
average stress in the ES-M0 plot is less
than 15 bars.
