Aftershocks Analysis

Dear Colleagues,

While most research on seismicity is concentrated on mainshock earthquakes, it has long been recognized seismic aftershock sequences triggered by such events hold important keys to understand the associated geodynamic regimes. It has been shown that the previous prevalent view — that a mainshock triggers a seismic series along the same fault and with obedience to Bath’s law or a well-behaved Omori’s law — is not a universal rule. In some specific tectonic settings, the complex interaction between different fault systems and their effects on the crustal state of stress can only be described by detailed analysis of aftershock sequences, coupled in some cases with geodetic methods.

This Special Issue of Geosciences aims to gather high-quality original research articles and reviews focused on understanding aftershocks analysis, across both temporal and spatial scales. This may cover but obviously not limited to:

• spatio-temporal evolution of aftershocks sequences
• focal mechanisms and fault interaction
• influence of crustal stress state on the aftershock’s behaviour
• crustal structure effects on events distribution
• seismic-geodetic coupled monitoring
• discrimination between fore-, main and aftershocks in complex seismic sequences
• seismic events clustering discrimination based on waveform crosscorrelation and characterization

Dr. Nuno Afonso Dias
Guest Editor

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• seismic aftershocks
• spatio-temporal evolution
• Bath and Omori’s law
• crustal stress state
• main shock discrimination
• complex faults interaction