Western US intermountain seismicity caused by changes in upper mantle flow

Thorsten W. Becker (), Anthony R. Lowry, Claudio Faccenna, Brandon Schmandt, Adrian Borsa and Chunquan Yu
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Thorsten W. Becker: University of Southern California
Anthony R. Lowry: Utah State University
Claudio Faccenna: Università Roma Tre
Brandon Schmandt: The University of New Mexico
Adrian Borsa: Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego
Chunquan Yu: Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Nature, 2015, vol. 524, issue 7566, 458-461

Abstract: Results from mantle flow models reveal a relationship between seismicity away from the plate boundary in the western United States and the rate change of the vertical normal stress from mantle flow, showing that mantle flow plays an important part in shaping topography, tectonics and seismic hazard within such intraplate settings.

Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1038/nature14867

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