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Corrigendum: Earthquakes triggered by silent slip events on Kīlauea volcano, Hawaii

November 9, 2006

There was a plotting error in Fig. 1 that inadvertently displays earthquakes for the incorrect time interval. The location of earthquakes during the two-day-long slow-slip event of January 2005 are shown here in the corrected Fig. 1. Because the incorrect locations were also used in the Coulomb stress-change (CSC) calculation, the error could potentially have biased our interpretation of the depth of the slow-slip event, although in fact it did not. Because nearly all of the earthquakes, both background and triggered, are landward of the slow-slip event and at similar depths (6.5–8.5 km), the impact on the CSC calculations is negligible (Fig. 2; compare with Fig. 4 in original paper). The error does not alter our conclusion that the triggered events during the January 2005 slow-slip event were located on a subhorizontal plane at a depth of 7.5  1 km. This is therefore the most likely depth of the slow-slip events. We thank Cecily J. Wolfe for pointing out the error in the original Fig. 1.

Publication Year 2006
Title Corrigendum: Earthquakes triggered by silent slip events on Kīlauea volcano, Hawaii
DOI 10.1038/nature05297
Authors Paul Segall, Emily K. Desmarais, David Shelly, Asta Miklius, Peter Cervelli
Publication Type Article
Publication Subtype Journal Article
Series Title Nature
Index ID 70176917
Record Source USGS Publications Warehouse