Figure 1: Back-arc strike-slip activity in the Andreanof Islands section of the Alaskan/Aleutian trench, from Ekström and Engdahl (JGR, 1989) following the Mw = 8.0 earthquake of May 7, 1986.

Figure 2:Coseismic change in right-lateral Coulomb shear stress in the upper plate along arc-parallel strike-slip faults for typical parameters of the 1986 Andreaonof Islands earthquake.

Figure 3: Strike-slip seismicity in the Rat Islands, Aluetians: Map view of asperity distribution of the Rat Islands Mw = 8.7 earthquake of February 4, 1965, from Beck and Christensen (JGR, 1991). Mechanism of subsequent strike-slip event from Stauder (JGR, 1968).

Figure 4: Coseismic change in left-lateral Coulomb shear stress in the upper plate along arc-perpendicular fault planes for typical parameters of the 1965 Rat Islands earthquake. Thus stress changes cannot distinguish the fault plane in this case.

Figure 5: Back-arc seismicity in Irian Jaya, Indonesia following the Feb. 17, 1996, Mw = 8.2 earthquake: Feb. 17 - Dec. 1, 1996, M > 5. The shaded region indicates the position of an inferred asperity consistent with the seismicity and calculated stress changes.

 

Figure 6: Coseismic change in left-lateral Coulomb shear stress in the upper plate along arc-parallel strike-slip faults for typical parameters of the 1996 Irian Jaya earthquake.

 

Figure 7: Coseismic change in extensional normal stress in the upper plate for faults oriented at 30°s from the trench for typical parameters for Irian Jaya.