%0 Journal Article %T Common dependence on stress for the two fundamental laws of statistical seismology %+ Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris (IPGP) %A Narteau, Clément %A Byrdina, Svetlana %A Shebalin, Peter %A Schorlemmer, Danijel %< avec comité de lecture %@ 0028-0836 %J Nature %I Nature Publishing Group %V 462 %P 642-645 %8 2009 %D 2009 %Z 2009Natur.462..642N %R 10.1038/nature08553 %Z Sciences of the Universe [physics]Journal articles %X Two of the long-standing relationships of statistical seismology are power laws: the Gutenberg-Richter relation describing the earthquake frequency-magnitude distribution, and the Omori-Utsu law characterizing the temporal decay of aftershock rate following a main shock. Recently, the effect of stress on the slope (the b value) of the earthquake frequency-magnitude distribution was determined by investigations of the faulting-style dependence of the b value. In a similar manner, we study here aftershock sequences according to the faulting style of their main shocks. We show that the time delay before the onset of the power-law aftershock decay rate (the c value) is on average shorter for thrust main shocks than for normal fault earthquakes, taking intermediate values for strike-slip events. These similar dependences on the faulting style indicate that both of the fundamental power laws are governed by the state of stress. Focal mechanisms are known for only 2 per cent of aftershocks. Therefore, c and b values are independent estimates and can be used as new tools to infer the stress field, which remains difficult to measure directly. %G English %L insu-03604883 %U https://insu.hal.science/insu-03604883 %~ INSU %~ UNIV-PARIS7 %~ AFRIQ %~ CNRS %~ IPGP %~ SORBONNE-UNIVERSITE %~ UNIV-PARIS %~ ALLIANCE-SU