Earthquake rupture below the brittle-ductile transition in continental lithospheric mantle

• Published in: Science Advances
• Main Authors: Prieto, Germán A., Froment, Bérénice, Yu, Chunquan, Poli, Piero, Abercrombie, Rachel
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: American Association for the Advancement of Science 2017
• Subjects: continental lithosphere; rheology; earthquake sources; directivity; lithosphere; rupture mechanics; Molnar; Hager; Seismological Facilities for the Advancement of Geoscience and EarthScope
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.1602642; https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/PMC5351985

Earthquakes deep in the continental lithosphere are rare and hard to interpret in our current understanding of temperature control on brittle failure. The recent lithospheric mantle earthquake with a moment magnitude of 4.8 at a depth of ~75 km in the Wyoming Craton was exceptionally well recorded a...