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    Erratum: Slow earthquakes triggered by typhoons

    Nature 459, 833–836 (2009) In this Letter, address 1 was incorrectly listed. This oversight has now been rectified.

    ChiChing Liu, Alan T. Linde, I. Selwyn Sacks in Nature (2009)

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    Slow earthquakes triggered by typhoons

    Teleseismic waves generated by large earthquakes are known to trigger other earthquakes, even at a great distance, and seasonal atmospheric pressure variations have been shown to modulate microearthquake activ...

    ChiChing Liu, Alan T. Linde, I. Selwyn Sacks in Nature (2009)

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    Annual modulation of triggered seismicity following the 1992 Landers earthquake in California

    The mechanism responsible for the triggering of earthquakes remains one of the least-understood aspects of the earthquake process. The magnitude-7.3 Landers, California earthquake of 28 June 1992 was followed ...

    Stephen S. Gao, Paul G. Silver, Alan T. Linde, I. Selwyn Sacks in Nature (2000)

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    Triggering of volcanic eruptions

    Although earthquakes and volcanic eruptions are each manifestations of large-scale tectonic plate and mantle motions, it is usually thought that the occurrences of these events are not directly related. There ...

    Alan T. Linde, I. Selwyn Sacks in Nature (1998)

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    Aseismio fault slip and block deformation in North China

    In North China, the tectonic fault-block system enables us to use the Discontinuous Deformation Analysis (DDA) method to simulate the long-term cross-fault survey and other geodetic data related to aseismic te...

    Lanbo Liu, Alan T. Linde, I. Selwyn Sacks, Shihai He in pure and applied geophysics (1996)

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    Aseismic Fault Slip and Block Deformation in North China

    In North China, the tectonic fault-block system enables us to use the Discontinuous Deformation Analysis (DDA) method to simulate the long-term cross-fault survey and other geodetic data related to aseismic te...

    Lanbo Liu, Alan T. Linde, I. Selwyn Sacks… in Mechanics Problems in Geodynamics Part II (1996)

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    Increased pressure from rising bubbles as a mechanism for remotely triggered seismicity

    AFTERSHOCKS of large earthquakes tend to occur close to the main rupture zone, and can be used to constrain its dimensions. But following the 1992 Landers earthquake (magnitude Mw = 7.3) in southern California, m...

    Alan T. Linde, I. Selwyn Sacks, Malcolm J. S. Johnston, David P. Hillt… in Nature (1994)

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    Mechanism of the 1991 eruption of Hekla from continuous borehole strain monitoring

    VOLCANOES erupt when the pressure in a magma chamber several kilometres below the edifice overcomes the strength of the intervening rock. Seismic activity may accompany and precede eruptions, allowing (in favo...

    Alan T. Linde, Kristjan Agustsson, I. Selwyn Sacks, Ragnar Stefansson in Nature (1993)

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    Testing the completeness of earthquake catalogues and the hypothesis of self-similarity

    Self-similarity of the earthquake process is consistent with the observed linear b-value relation log (N) = a – bM, where N is the number of earthquakes with magnitude M. Deviations from linearity are believed to...

    Paul A. Rydelek, I. Selwyn Sacks in Nature (1989)

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    Sediment Recycling at Convergent Margins: Constraints from the Cosmogenic Isotope 10Be

    The question of whether sediments are subducted at convergent margins and subsequently incorporated in arc magmas has long been controversial. The cosmogenic isotope 10Be (T1/2 = 1.5 million years) suggests that ...

    Julie Morris, Fouad Tera, I. Selwyn Sacks… in Crust/Mantle Recycling at Convergence Zones (1989)

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    Geophysical Constraints on Recycling of Oceanic Lithosphere

    The path of an oceanic slab as it subducts beneath a continent or ocean is generally illuminated by a plane of earthquakes. In most subduction zones the earthquake activity is probably confined to the upper te...

    I. Selwyn Sacks, John F. Schneider in Crust/Mantle Recycling at Convergence Zones (1989)

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    Magma Generation in Subduction Zones

    There are two general classes of models for magma generation in subduction zones; melting of the subducted slab, or magma derivation from the asthenosphere wedge overlying the subducted slab. Lack of knowledge...

    I. Selwyn Sacks, Hiroki Sato, Julie Morris in Crust/Mantle Recycling at Convergence Zones (1989)

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    Geotherms in the Pacific Ocean from laboratory and seismic attenuation studies

    Seismic methods have been used extensively to measure attenuation coefficients in various regions of the Earth. Attenuation is inversely related to the quality factor Q, which may be measured directly. A low-velo...

    Hiroki Sato, I. Selwyn Sacks, Eiichi Takahashi, Christopher M. Scarfe in Nature (1988)

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    Asthenospheric viscosity inferred from correlated land–sea earthquakes in north-east Japan

    The viscosity of the Earth's mantle has been estimated from studies of post-glacial rebound1,2, post-seismic deformations of the ground following large earthquakes3,4, and aftershock sequences5–7. Here we derive ...

    Paul A. Rydelek, I. Selwyn Sacks in Nature (1988)

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    Episodic aseismic earthquake precursors

    Shallow earthquakes are generally believed to be brittle fractures in a stressed medium with rupture velocity at a speed close to that for shear waves. We know, however, that the Earth allows failure over a wi...

    Alan T. Linde, Kiyoshi Suyehiro, Satoshi Miura, I. Selwyn Sacks, Akio Takagi in Nature (1988)

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    Attenuation of compressional waves in peridotite measured as a function of temperature at 200 MPa

    A technique has been developed to determine attenuation in rocks at high temperature using a gas-media, high-pressure apparatus. A pulse transmission technique and a spectral ratio method are used to study com...

    Hiroki Sato, I. Selwyn Sacks, Tsutomu Murase… in pure and applied geophysics (1988)

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    Attenuation of Compressional Waves in Peridotite Measured as a Function of Temperature at 200 MPa

    A technique has been developed to determine attenuation in rocks at high temperature using a gas-media, high-pressure apparatus. A pulse transmission technique and a spectral ratio method are used to study com...

    Hiroki Sato, I. Selwyn Sacks, Tsutomu Murase… in Scattering and Attenuations of Seismic Wav… (1988)

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    Time-dependent models of single- and double-layer mantle convection

    One outstanding problem of great geophysical importance is the vertical extent of convection in the Earth's mantle1. Steady-state models of convection in the mantle have yet to produce a description of the mantle...

    Alan Paul Boss, I. Selwyn Sacks in Nature (1984)

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    10Be in island-arc volcanoes and implications for subduction

    We have measured the concentration of the cosmogenic isotope 10Be in the lava of 19 separate flows, 15 of which are from island-arc volcanoes. We report here that 13 of the island-arc samples show concentrations ...

    Louis Brown, Jeffrey Klein, Roy Middleton, I. Selwyn Sacks, Fouad Tera in Nature (1982)

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    Slow earthquakes and stress redistribution

    Strainmeters with high sensitivity over long periods have enabled the detection and identification of slow earthquakes: seismic events which produce records similar to those from normal earthquakes except that...

    I. Selwyn Sacks, Alan T. Linde, Shigeji Suyehiro, J. Arthur Snoke in Nature (1978)