Congratulations to IGPP's Wenyuan Fan and Peter M. Shearer, whose large earthquake aftershock research paper titled "Local near instantaneously dynamically triggered aftershocks of large earthquakes" appears in the 9 September 2016 issue of Science.
Shearer and Fan located 48 previously unidentified large early aftershocks triggered by earthquakes with magnitudes between ≥7 and 8. They have observed that large earthquakes can dynamically trigger remote aftershocks occurring almost instantaneously within subduction zones and continental boundaries. For more information, click here.