Science. 1993 May 14;260(5110):973-6. doi: 10.1126/science.260.5110.973.
Two lines of evidence suggest that large earthquakes that occur on either the San Jacinto fault zone (SJFZ) or the San Andreas fault zone (SAFZ) may be triggered by large earthquakes that occur on the other. First, the great 1857 Fort Tejon earthquake in the SAFZ seems to have triggered a progressive sequence of earthquakes in the SJFZ. These earthquakes occurred at times and locations that are consistent with triggering by a strain pulse that propagated southeastward at a rate of 1.7 kilometers per year along the SJFZ after the 1857 earthquake. Second, the similarity in average recurrence intervals in the SJFZ (about 150 years) and in the Mojave segment of the SAFZ (132 years) suggests that large earthquakes in the northern SJFZ may stimulate the relatively frequent major earthquakes on the Mojave segment. Analysis of historic earthquake occurrence in the SJFZ suggests little likelihood of extended quiescence between earthquake sequences.
有两条证据表明，发生在圣安地列斯断层带（SAFZ）或圣哈辛托断层带（SJFZ）上的大地震可能会被另一条断层带上的大地震触发。首先，SAFZ 上的 1857 年大 Fort Tejon 地震似乎引发了 SJFZ 上一系列渐进式的地震。这些地震发生的时间和地点与 1857 年地震后沿 SJFZ 以每年 1.7 公里的速度传播的应变脉冲触发的情况一致。其次，SJFZ（约 150 年）和 SAFZ 的莫哈韦段（132 年）的平均复发间隔的相似性表明，北 SJFZ 的大地震可能会刺激莫哈韦段相对频繁的大地震。对 SJFZ 历史地震发生情况的分析表明，在地震序列之间不太可能出现长时间的平静期。
