Publications
Electronic PDFs of all papers are available by request from rea@bu.edu
Fang, H., and R. E. Abercrombie (2023) SMatStack to enhance noisy teleseismic seismic phases: validation and application to resolving depths of oceanic transform earthquakes, Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 24, e2023GC011109. https://doi.org/10.1029/2023GC011109
Chang, H., Abercrombie, R. E., Nakata, N., Pennington, C. N., Kemna, K. B., Cochran, E. S., & Harrington, R. M. (2023). Quantifying site effects and their influence on earthquake source parameter estimations using a dense array in Oklahoma. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 128, e2023JB027144. https://doi.org/10.1029/2023JB027144
Ruhl, C. J., R. E. Abercrombie, P. M. Shearer (2023). Spatially Consistent Small‐Scale Stress Heterogeneity Revealed by the 2008 Mogul, Nevada, Earthquakes. The Seismic Record ; 3 (3): 239–248. doi: https://doi.org/10.1785/0320230026
Wang, Q., Frank, W. B., Abercrombie, R. E., Obara, K., & Kato, A. (2023), What makes low-frequency earthquakes low frequency? Science Advances, 9, eadh3688. DOI:10.1126/sciadv.adh3688
Calderoni, G., & Abercrombie, R. E. (2023). Investigating spectral estimates of stress drop for small to moderate earthquakes with heterogeneous slip distribution: Examples from the 2016–2017 Amatrice earthquake sequence. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 128, e2022JB025022. https://doi.org/10.1029/2022JB025022
Schlaphorst, D., C. Rychert, N. Harmon, S. P. Hicks, P. Bogiatzis, J. M. Kendall and R. E. Abercrombie, (2023). Local seismicity around the Chain Transform Fault at the Mid-Atlantic Ridge from OBS observations. Geophysical Journal International, ggad124, https://doi.org/10.1093/gji/ggad124
Pennington, C. N., Q. Wu, X. Chen, R. E. Abercrombie (2023), Quantifying Rupture Characteristics of Microearthquakes in the Parkfield Area Using a High-Resolution Borehole Network, Geophysical Journal International, ggad023, https://doi.org/10.1093/gji/ggad023.
Qin, Y., Chen, X., Chen, T., & Abercrombie, R. E. (2022). Influence of fault architecture on induced earthquake sequence evolution revealed by high-resolution focal mechanism solutions. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 127, e2022JB025040. https://doi.org/10.1029/2022JB025040
Shearer, P. M., R. E. Abercrombie, and D. T Trugman (2022). Improved stress drop estimates for M 1.5 to 4 earthquakes in Southern California from 1996 to 2019, Journal of Geophysical Research-Solid Earth, 127, e2022JB024243. https://doi.org/10.1029/2022JB024243
Zhang, J., Chen, X., Abercrombie, R. E., (2022) Spatiotemporal variability of earthquake source parameters at Parkfield, California, and their relationship with the 2004 M6 earthquake, Journal of Geophysical Research-Solid Earth 127, e2021JB022851. https://doi.org/10.1029/2021JB022851
Pennington, C. N., H. Chang, J. L. Rubinstein, R. E. Abercrombie, N. Nakata, T. Uchide and E. S. Cochran (2022), Quantifying the Sensitivity of Microearthquake Slip Inversions to Station Distribution Using a Dense Nodal Array, Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America 2022; doi: https://doi.org/10.1785/0120210279.
Hatch‐Ibarra, R. L., R. E. Abercrombie, C. J. Ruhl, K. Smith, W. C. Hammond and I. Pierce, 2022. The 2016 Nine Mile Ranch Earthquakes: Hazard and Tectonic Implications of Orthogonal Conjugate Faulting in the Walker Lane, Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America 2022; doi: https://doi.org/10.1785/0120210149
Abercrombie, R. E., Trugman, D. T., Shearer, P. M., Chen, X., Zhang, J., Pennington, C. N., Hardebeck, J. L., Goebel, T. H., & Ruhl, C. J., 2021. Does earthquake stress drop increase with depth? Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 126, e2021JB022314. https://doi.org/10.1029/2021JB022314
Abercrombie, R. E., 2021. Resolution and Uncertainties in Estimates of Earthquake stress drop and Energy Release, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A, 379, 20200131. 20200131. http://doi.org/10.1098/rsta.2020.0131
Nakai, J., A. Sheehan, R. E. Abercrombie and D. Eberhart-Phillips 2021, Near Trench 3D Seismic Attenuation Offshore Northern Hikurangi Subduction Margin, North Island, New Zealand, Journal of Geophysical Research-Solid Earth, 126, e2020JB020810. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020JB020810
Shearer, P. M., and R. E. Abercrombie, 2021. Calibrating Spectral Decomposition of Local Earthquakes using Borehole Seismic Records – Results for the 1992 Big Bear Aftershocks in Southern California, Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 126, e2020JB020561. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020JB020561
Pennington, C., Chen, X., Abercrombie, R. E., and Wu, Q., 2021. Cross Validation of Stress Drop Estimates and Interpretations for the 2011 Prague, OK, Earthquake Sequence Using Multiple Methods, Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 126, e2020JB020888. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020JB020888
Abercrombie, R. E., X. Chen & J. Zhang (2020), Repeating earthquakes with remarkably repeatable ruptures on the San Andreas Fault at Parkfield, Geophysical Research Letters, 47, e2020GL089820. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020GL089820
Moyer, P. A., Boettcher, M. S., Bohnenstiehl, D. R., & Abercrombie, R. E. (2020). Crustal strength variations inferred from earthquake stress drop at Axial Seamount surrounding the 2015 eruption. Geophys. Res. Lett., 47, e2020GL08844, https://doi.org/10.1029/2020GL088447
Chaves, E. J., S. Y. Schwartz & R. E. Abercrombie (2020). Repeating Earthquakes Record Fault Weakening and Healing Following a Megathrust Earthquake, Science Advances, (32), eaaz9317
DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aaz9317
Hicks, S., R. Okuwaki, A. Steinberg, C. Rychert, N. Harmon, R. Abercrombie, P. Bogiaztis, D. Schlaphorst, J. Zahradnik, J-M. Kendall, Y. Yagi, K. Shimizu, H. Sudhaus (2020), Back-propagating super-shear rupture in the 2016 M7.1 Romanche transform fault earthquake, Nature Geoscience, 13, 647–653 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-020-0619-9
Yu, H., R. M. Harrington, H. Kao, Y. Liu, R. E. Abercrombie, B. Wang (2020), Well Proximity Governing Spatial Variation of Stress Drop and Seismic Attenuation Associated with Hydraulic Fracturing Induced Earthquakes, Journal of Geophysical Research, 125, e2020JB020103. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020JB020103.
Chen, X., and R E Abercrombie (2020), Improved approach for stress drop estimation and its application to an induced earthquake sequence in Oklahoma, Geophysical Journal International, 223, 233-253, https://doi.org/10.1093/gji/ggaa316
Hatch, R. L., Abercrombie, R. E., Ruhl, C. J., & Smith, K. D. (2020). Evidence of aseismic and fluid‐driven processes in a small complex seismic swarm near Virginia City, Nevada. Geophysical Research Letters, 47, e2019GL085477. https://doi.org/10.1029/2019GL085477
, , , & ( 2019). Comparing EGF methods for estimating corner frequency and stress drop from P wave spectra. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 124, 3966– 3986. https://doi.org/10.1029/2018JB016957
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Hatch, R. L., R. E. Abercrombie, C. J. Ruhl, and K. D. Smith, 2018, Earthquake Interaction, Fault Structure, and Source Properties of a Small Sequence in 2017 near Truckee, California, Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America (2018) 108 (5A): 2580-2593. https://doi.org/10.1785/0120180089
Frank, W. B., and R. E. Abercrombie, 2018. Adapting the matched-filter search to wide-aperture networks: and aftershock sequence and an earthquake swarm in Connecticut, Bull. Seismol. Soc. Am., 108, 524-532, https://doi.org/10.1785/0120170190
Abercrombie, R. E., Poli, P. & Bannister, S. (2017). Earthquake Directivity, orientation and stress drop within the subducting plate at the Hikurangi margin, New Zealand. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 122. https://doi.org/10.1002/2017JB014935
Ruhl, C. J., Abercrombie, R. E., & Smith, K. D. (2017). Spatiotemporal variation of stress drop during the 2008 Mogul, Nevada, earthquake swarm. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 122, 8163–8180. https://doi.org/10.1002/2017JB014601
Abercrombie, R. E., S. Bannister, J. Ristau, and D. Doser, 2017. Variability of Earthquake Stress Drop in a subduction setting, the Hikurangi Margin, New Zealand, Geophys. J. Int., 208, 306-320, doi:10.1093/gji/ggw393
Prieto, G. A., B. Froment, C. Yu, P. Poli, and R. E. Abercrombie, 2016. Earthquake rupture below the brittle-ductile transition in continental lithospheric mantle, Science Advances, 3, doi:10.1126/sciadv.1602642
Ruhl, C. J., R. E. Abercrombie, K. D. Smith, and I. Zaliapin, 2016. Complex Spatiotemporal Evolution of the 2008 Mw 4.9 Mogul Earthquake Swarm (Reno, Nevada): Interplay of Fluid and Faulting, J. Geophys. Res., Solid Earth, 121, doi:10.1002/2016JB013399
Aderhold, K., R. E. Abercrombie, 2016. The 2015 M7.1 Earthquake on the Charlie-Gibbs Transform Fault: Repeating Earthquakes and Multi-modal Slip on a Slow Oceanic Transform, Geophys. Res. Lett., doi: 10.1002/2016GL068802
Aderhold, K., R. E. Abercrombie, 2016. Seismotectonics of a diffuse plate boundary: Observations off the Sumatra-Andaman trench, Journal of Geophysical Research, doi: 10.1002/2015JB012721
Abercrombie, R. E., 2015. Investigating Uncertainties in Empirical Green’s Function Analysis Earthquake Source Parameters, J. Geophys. Res., doi:10.1002/2015JB011984
Aderhold, K., R. E. Abercrombie, 2015, Seismic rupture on an oceanic-continental plate boundary: strike-slip earthquakes along the Queen Charlotte-Fairweather fault, Bull. Seismol. Soc. Am., 105, 1129-1142, doi:10.1785/0120140227 SUPPLEMENT
Abercrombie, R. E., 2014. Stress Drops of Repeating Earthquakes on the San Andreas Fault at Parkfield, Geophys. Res. Lett., 41, 8784–8791, doi:10.1002/2014GL062079
Abercrombie, R. E., 2013. Comparison of direct and coda wave stress drop measurements for the Wells, Nevada, earthquake sequence, J. Geophys. Res., 118, 1458–1470, doi:10.1029/2012JB009638
Chen, X., P. M. Shearer, and R. E. Abercrombie, 2012. Spatial migration of earthquakes within seismic clusters in Southern California: Evidence for fluid diffusion, J. Geophys. Res., 117, B04301, doi:10.1029/2011JB008973
El Hariri, M., R. E. Abercrombie, C. A. Rowe, and A. F. do Nascimento, 2010. The Role of Fluids in Triggering Earthquakes: Observations From Reservoir Induced Earthquakes in Brazil, Geophys. J. Int., 181, 1566-1574 DOI
Viegas, G. M., R. E. Abercrombie, and W.-Y. Kim, 2010. The 2002 M5 Au Sable Forks, NY, earthquake sequence: source scaling relationships and energy budget, J. Geophys. Res., 115, B07310, doi:10.1029/2009JB006799
Viegas, G. M., L. G. Baise, and R. E. Abercrombie, 2010, Regional wave propagation in New England and New York, Bull. Seism. Soc. Am., 100, 2196-2218, doi:10.1785/0120090223
Tomic, J., R. E. Abercrombie, and Do Nascimento, A., 2009, Source parameters and rupture velocity of small M≤2.2 reservoir induced earthquakes, Geophys. J. Int., doi:10.1111/j.1365-246X.2009.04233.x
Yamada, T., R. E. Abercrombie, S. Ide, J. J. Mori, H. Kawakata, M. Nakatani, Y. Iio, and H. Ogasawara, 2007, Stress Drops and Radiated Seismic Energies of Microearthquakes in a South African Gold Mine, J. Geophys. Res., 112, B03305, doi:10.1029/2006JB004553
Sonley, E., and R. E. Abercrombie, 2006, Effects of methods of attenuation correction on source parameter determination, American Geophysical Union Monograph, EARTHQUAKES Radiated energy and the physics of faulting, eds. Abercrombie, McGarr, Di Toro and Kanamori
Shipton, Z., J. Evans, R. E. Abercrombie and E. Brodsky, 2006, The Missing Sinks: Slip Localization in Faults, Damage Zones, and the Seismic Energy Budget, American Geophysical Union Monograph, EARTHQUAKES Radiated energy and the physics of faulting, eds. Abercrombie, McGarr, Di Toro and Kanamori
Antolik, M., R. E. Abercrombie, Pan, and G. Ekström, 2006, Rupture characteristics of the 2003 Mw7.6 Mid-Indian ocean earthquake, J. Geophys. Res., 111, B04302, doi:10.1029/2005JB003785
Abercrombie, R. E., The start of something big?, 2005, Nature 438, 171-173, invited News and Views
Abercrombie, R. E. and Rice, J. R., 2005, Can observations of earthquake scaling constrain slip weakening?, Geophys. J. Int., 162, 406-424 doi
McGarr, A., R. E. Abercrombie, and H. Kanamori, 2005. Radiated energy and the physics of earthquake faulting, Eos, Trans. AGU, 86, 447
Abercrombie, R. E., 2004, Earthquakes, Highlights: Discoveries in the Earth Sciences, Geotimes, July 2004 (Invited Review article).
Antolik, M., R. E. Abercrombie, and G. Ekström, 2004, The 14 November, 2001 Kokoxili (Kunlunshan), Tibet earthquake: rupture transfer through a large extensional step-over, Bull. Seism. Soc. Am., 94, 1173-1194 SUPPLEMENT
Felzer, K. R., R. E. Abercrombie, and G. Ekström, 2004, A common origin for aftershocks, foreshocks, and multiplets, Bull. Seism. Soc. Am., 94, 88-99
Abercrombie, R. E. and Ekström, G., 2003, A reassessment of the rupture characteristics of oceanic transform faults, J. Geophys. Res., 108, 10.1029/2001JB000814
Abercrombie, R. E., M. A. Antolik, and G. Ekström, 2003, The June 2000 Mw7.9 earthquakes south of Sumatra: deformation in the India-Australia plate, J. Geophys. Res., 108, 10.1029/2001JB000674
Felzer, K. R., R. E. Abercrombie, and G. Ekström, 2003, Secondary Aftershocks and their importance for aftershock forecasting, Bull. Seism. Soc. Am., 93, 1433-1448
Mori, J. J., Abercrombie, R. E., and Kanamori, H., 2003, Stress drops and radiated energies of the Northridge aftershocks, J. Geophys. Res., 108, 10.1029/200JB000474, 2003
Felzer, K. R., T. W. Becker, R. E. Abercrombie, G. Ekström, and J. R. Rice, 2002, Triggering of the 1999 Mw 7.1 Hector Mine earthquake by aftershocks of the 1992 Mw 7.3 Landers earthquake, J. Geophys. Res., 107, 2190, doi:10.1029/2001JB000911
Abercrombie, R. E. and Ekström, G., 2001, Earthquake slip on oceanic transform faults, Nature, 410, 74-77
Abercrombie, R. E., Antolik, M. A., Felzer, K. R., and Ekström, G., 2001, The 1994 Java earthquake: slip over a subducting seamount, J. Geophys. Res., 106, 6595-6607
Ellsworth, B., H. Ito, P. Malin, and R. E. Abercrombie, 2001. In Jules Verne’s Footsteps: Seismology in the Source, Eos, Trans. AGU, 82, 333, 339.
Abercrombie, R. E., 2000, Crustal Attenuation and Site Effects at Parkfield, California, J. Geophys. Res., 105, 6277-6286
Abercrombie, R. E., 2000, Earthquake source complexity and seismicity at small magnitudes, Proceedings of the 3rd Conference on Tectonic Problems of the San Andreas Fault System, September 6-8, 2000 Stanford University.
Abercrombie, R. E., Webb, T. H., Robinson, R., McGinty, P. J., Mori, J. J. and Beavan, J., 2000, The enigma of the Arthur’s Pass, New Zealand, earthquake 1: reconciling a variety of data for an unusual earthquake sequence, J. Geophys. Res., 105, 16119-16137.
Abercrombie, R. E., Bannister, S., Pancha, A., Webb, T. H. and Mori, J., 2000, Determination of fault planes in a complex aftershock sequence using two-dimensional slip inversion, Geophys. J. Int., 146, 134-142
Gledhill, K., Robinson, R., Webb, T. H., Abercrombie, R. E., Beavan, J., Cousins, J., and Eberhart-Phillips, D., 2000, The Mw 6.2, Cass, New Zealand, earthquake of 24 November 1995: Reverse faulting in a strike slip regime, New Zealand J. Geol. And Geophys., 43, 255-269
Abercrombie, R. E., 1998, A summary of attenuation measurements from borehole recordings of earthquakes: the 10 Hz transition problem, Pure Appl. Geophys., 153, 475-487 DOI
Abercrombie, R. E. and Benites, R. A., 1998, Strong motion modelling of the 1993 Tikokino earthquake, southern Hawkes Bay, New Zealand, New Zealand J. Geol. And Geophys., 41, 259-270
Adams, D. A. and Abercrombie, R. E., 1998, Seismic attenuation at high frequencies in southern California from coda waves recorded at a range of depths, J. Geophys. Res., 103, 24257-24270
Abercrombie, R. E., 1997, Near surface attenuation and site effects from comparison of surface and deep borehole recordings, Bull. Seism. Soc. Am., 87, 731-744
Mori, J. J. and Abercrombie, R. E., 1997, Depth dependence of earthquake frequency-magnitude distributions in California: implications for rupture initiation, J. Geophys. Res., 102, 15081-15090
Liu, Y., Crampin, S. and Abercrombie, R. E., 1997, Shear-wave anisotropy and the stress field from borehole recordings at 2.5 km depth at Cajon Pass, Geophys. J. Int., 129, 439-449
Abercrombie, R. E., 1996, The magnitude-frequency distribution of earthquakes recorded with deep seismometers at Cajon Pass, Southern California, Tectonophys., 261, 1-7
Abercrombie, R. E. and Mori, J., 1996, Occurrence patterns of foreshocks to large earthquakes in the western United States, Nature, 381, 303-307 DOI
Manov, D. V., Abercrombie, R. E. and Leary, P. C., 1996. Reliable and economical high temperature deep borehole seismic recording, Bull. Seism. Soc. Am., 86, 204-211
Abercrombie, R. E., 1995a, Earthquake source scaling relationships from -1 to 5 ML, using seismograms recorded at 2.5 km depth, J. Geophys. Res., 100, 24015-24036 DOI
Abercrombie, R. E., 1995b, Earthquake locations using single-station deep borehole recordings: implications for microseismicity on the San Andreas fault in southern California, J. Geophys. Res., 100, 24003-24014
Abercrombie, R. E. Main, I. G., Douglas, A. and Burton, P. W., 1995, The nucleation and rupture process of the 1981 Gulf of Corinth earthquakes from deconvolved broadband data, Geophys. J. Int., 120, 393-405
Abercrombie, R. E., Agnew, D. C. and Wyatt, F. K., 1995, Testing a model of earthquake nucleation, Bull. Seism. Soc. Am., 85, 1873-1878
Banerdt, W. B., Abercrombie, R. E., Keddie, S., Mizutani, H., Nagihara, S., Nakamura, Y. and Pike, W. T., 1995, Planetary Interiors, in Planetary Surface Instruments Workshop, Eds. C. Meyer, A. Treiman and T. Kostiuk,. Lunar and Planetary Institute Technical Report 95-05, 41-50.
Abercrombie, R. E. and Mori, J., 1994, Local observations of the onset of a large earthquake: 28 June 1992, Landers, California, Bull. Seism. Soc. Am., 84, 725-734
Abercrombie, R. E. and Brune, J. N., 1994, Evidence for a constant b-value in the southern San Andreas, San Jacinto and San Miguel fault zones, and at the Long Valley caldera, California, Geophys. Res. Lett., 21, 1647-1650
Abercrombie, R. E., 1994a, Regional bias in estimates of earthquake Ms due to surface wave path effects, Bull. Seism. Soc. Am., 84, 377-382
Abercrombie, R. E., 1994b, Earthquake seismology 2.5 km down the Cajon Pass scientific drillhole, southern California, Proc. 7th Int. Symposium on the Observation of the Continental Crust through Drilling, 221-224.
Leary, P. C. and Abercrombie, R. E., 1994a, Frequency dependent crustal scattering and absorption at 5 – 160 Hz from coda decay observed at 2.5 km depth, Geophys. Res. Lett., 21, 971-974.
Leary, P. C. and Abercrombie, R. E., 1994b, Fractal fracture scattering origin of S-wave coda: spectral evidence from recordings at 2.5 km, Geophys. Res. Lett., 21, 1683-1686.
Abercrombie, R. E. and Leary, P. C., 1993, Source parameters of small earthquakes recorded at 2.5 km depth, Cajon Pass, southern California: implications for earthquake scaling, Geophys. Res. Lett., 20, 1511-1514
Abercrombie, R. E., 1991, Earthquake rupture dynamics and neotectonics of the Aegean area, Ph.D. Thesis, University of Reading.
Monographs
GEOPHYSICAL MONOGRAPH 170: EARTHQUAKES Radiated Energy and the Physics of Faulting, R. E. Abercrombie, A. McGarr, G. Di Toro, H. Kanamori, 2006. Table of Contents
(Following from 2005 AGU Chapman conference, see PDF)
