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Response of Regional Seismicity to the Static Stress Change Produced by the Loma Prieta Earthquake.

Paul A. Reasenberg & R. W. Simpson, USGS, Menlo Park, California.

Earthquake data were obtained from the catalog of the Northern California Seismic Network, U.S. Geological Survey, Menlo Park, California. For the study area, earthquake hypocenters were selected for all events between January 1, 1969 and March 31, 1992. These data are archived in the file lp_seismicity.raw. Earthquake clusters were identified and removed by a computer program. The clustering program identified 3296 clusters, which included 30,457 earthquakes. Each identified cluster was replaced by a single pseudoevent representing it. The pseudoevent's magnitude corresponds to the cumulative moment of the cluster, its location is that of the cluster's centroid, and its origin time is that of the cluster's largest event. Other details of the cluster recognition and removal algorithm are described in Reasenberg (1985). The result of the declustering procedure is archived in the file lp_seismicity.dec. Regional subsets of earthquakes corresponding to the immediate aftershocks include all earthquakes within 5 km of any of the model fault segments in each zone. These data are archived in file Zone1, Zone2N, Zone2S, Zone3, Zone4 and Zone5.

  +----------------------------------------------------------+
  |                    README file                           |
  |     corresponding to the archived seismicity data        |
  |  used in "Response of Regional Seismicity to the Static  |
  |   Stress Change Produced by the Loma Prieta Earthquake"  |
  |       by Paul A. Reasenberg and Robert W. Simpson,       |
  |            Chapter on Postseismic Effects,               |
  |        U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper         |
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1. ABSTRACT

Earthquake data were obtained from the catalog of the Northern California
Seismic Network, U.S. Geological Survey, Menlo Park, California. For the study
area shown in Figures 4 through 8, earthquake hypocenters were selected for all
(M >= 1.0) events between January 1, 1969 and March 31, 1992. These data are
archived in the file lp_seismicity.raw. A subset of this file consisting of M
>= 1.5 events was used to prepare Figures 4, 5, 6 and 8.

Figure 7 was prepared with a data set derived from the raw catalog data.
Earthquake clusters in this file were identified and removed by a computer
program (Program CLUSTER5 was used; see Reasenberg, P., J. Geophys. Res. vol.
90, p. 5479, 1985). The clustering program identified 3296 clusters, which
included 30,457 earthquakes (39% of the raw, M >= 1.0 catalog file). Each
identified cluster was replaced by a single pseudoevent representing it. The
pseudoevent's magnitude corresponds to the cumulative moment of the cluster,
its location is that of the cluster's centroid, and its origin time is that of
the cluster's largest event. Other details of the cluster recognition and
removal algorithm are described in Reasenberg (1985).  The result of the
declustering procedure is archived in the file lp_seismicity.dec. Figure 7 was
prepared with a subset of this "declustered" file consisting of M >= 1.5
events.

Figure 12 was prepared with regional subsets of earthquakes corresponding to
the immediate aftershock zone (Zone 1), the northern part of the creeping
section of the San Andreas fault (Zone 2N), the southern part of the creeping
section of the San Andreas fault (Zone 2S), the San Francisco Peninsula (Zone
3), the San Gregorio fault (Zone 4), and the Hayward fault (Zone 5).  The
subsets include all earthquakes (M >= 1.5) within 5 km of any of the model
fault segments in each zone (see Table 1). These data are archived in the files
Zone1, Zone2N, Zone2S, Zone3, Zone4 and Zone5.

2. ASCII DATA FORMATS

   1. File lp_seismicity.raw is written in Hypoinverse format (F. Klein,
      USGS Open-File Report 89-314) 

   2. File lp_seismicity.dec is written in a modification of
      Hypo71 format (W.H.K. Lee and J.C. Lahr, USGS Open-File
      Report 75-311), in which columns 1 to 80 are
      in hypo71 format, and columns 81 to 90 are appended to these.
      In these extra 10 columns, column 87 is "0" for
      earthquakes and is blank for "pseudoevents" (see Abstract in
      data archive), and column 89 is "+" for earthquakes and "X" for
      pseudoevents, where "X" may be any letter. The other extra
      columns are blank.

   3. Files Zone1, Zone2N, Zone2S, Zone3, Zone4 and Zone5 are written in
      Hypo71 format

3. SIZES OF ARCHIVE FILES

   Filename         Number of   Number of
                     Lines       Bytes

lp_seismicity.raw      78666    10462578
lp_seismicity.dec      51165     4656015
zone1                   1195       94405
zone2N                  2032      160528 
zone2S                  6105      482295
zone3                    615       48585         
zone4                    166        1311
zone5                    796       62884

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