On the Cover…

The 3 September 2016 M_w 5.8 Pawnee earthquake, widely felt throughout Oklahoma and neighboring states, may be the largest injection-induced earthquake recorded to date. The cover figure depicts the slip distribution of the earthquake as derived from Grandin et al. (this issue), one of 10 original research papers presented here in an SRL focus section about the earthquake. The focus section provides a complete view of the stress evolution leading to the mainshock inferred from foreshock activities and coupled poro-elastic modeling; coseismic stress changes and deformations from both seismological and geodetic observations; dynamic hydrological responses at far-field; and liquefaction observations from geoelectrical and surface mapping.

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