Fig. 3
From: Testing the Coulomb stress triggering hypothesis for three recent megathrust earthquakes
Temporal changes in median Coulomb stress changes after 2000 for a the 2004 Sumatra–Andaman earthquake (orange) b the 2010 Maule earthquake (dark green), and c the 2011 Tohoku-Oki earthquake (purple). Vertical dashed lines indicate the occurrence times of mainshocks. Vertical error bars indicate the standard deviations obtained by Monte Carlo simulation, which randomly selects either the first or the second nodal plane as a receiver fault. See Additional file 3: Figures S3 and Additional file 4: Figure S4 in the electronic supplement for the temporal changes of median Coulomb stress changes after January 1976