TY  - JOUR
A1  - Davidsen, Joern
A1  - Kwiatek, Grzegorz
A1  - Charalampidou, Elli-Maria
A1  - Goebel, Thomas
A1  - Stanchits, Sergei
A1  - Rueck, Marc
A1  - Dresen, Georg
T1  - Triggering Processes in Rock Fracture
JF  - Physical review letters
N2  - We study triggering processes in triaxial compression experiments under a constant displacement rate on sandstone and granite samples using spatially located acoustic emission events and their focal mechanisms. We present strong evidence that event-event triggering plays an important role in the presence of large-scale or macrocopic imperfections, while such triggering is basically absent if no significant imperfections are present. In the former case, we recover all established empirical relations of aftershock seismicity including the Gutenberg-Richter relation, a modified version of the Omori-Utsu relation and the productivity relation-despite the fact that the activity is dominated by compaction-type events and triggering cascades have a swarmlike topology. For the Gutenberg-Richter relations, we find that the b value is smaller for triggered events compared to background events. Moreover, we show that triggered acoustic emission events have a focal mechanism much more similar to their associated trigger than expected by chance.
Y1  - 2017
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.119.068501
SN  - 0031-9007
SN  - 1079-7114
VL  - 119
PB  - American Physical Society
CY  - College Park
ER  -