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 4.
ES-M0
for 17 continental intraplate earthquakes that occurred between 1988 to
1999. The characteristic apparent stress for earthquakes in this tectonic
setting is centered narrowly about 4.7 bars, which is slightly higher than
average for all subduction-zone thrust earthquakes.
