Physics
Scientific paper
Mar 2005
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2005e%26psl.232...39f&link_type=abstract
Earth and Planetary Science Letters, Volume 232, Issue 1-2, p. 39-49.
Physics
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Scientific paper
Using SAR interferometry (InSAR), the deformation field of the Mw=6.6, 1998 Aiquile, Bolivia earthquake is mapped, and the epicentre accurately located for the first time. Elastic dislocation modelling is used to demonstrate that the measured displacements are best explained with a ˜N S oriented fault, with a strike that is oblique to the principal topographic features in the region, and a location that agrees with a Modified Mercalli Intensity map constructed from observations of damage in the surrounding area. A variable-slip solution for a fault in this orientation is obtained which predicts peak slip of 1.42 m at depths of ˜4 5 km on the fault plane and has an estimated seismic moment, M0=8.44×1018 N m, which agrees with estimates from long-period seismology. This is the first time that a fault has been demonstrated unambiguously to be active in the Central Andes, and since there was no previous knowledge of an active fault with this location or orientation, a necessary conclusion is that our understanding of seismic hazard in this region is limited.
Barke Richard M. D.
Funning Gareth J.
Lamb Simon H.
Minaya Estela
Parsons Barry
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