Spatial changes of inter-plate coupling inferred from sequences of small repeating earthquakes in Japan

Details Spatial changes of inter-plate coupling inferred from sequences of small repeating earthquakes in Japan Spatial changes of inter-plate coupling inferred from sequences of small repeating earthquakes in Japan

Oct 2010

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2010georl..3720304i&link_type=abstract

Geophysical Research Letters, Volume 37, Issue 20, CiteID L20304

Physics

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Seismology: Seismicity And Tectonics (1207, 1217, 1240, 1242), Seismology: Subduction Zones (1207, 1219, 1240), Seismology: Earthquake Interaction, Forecasting, And Prediction (1217, 1242), Tectonophysics: Plate Boundary: General (3040)

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We extract sequences of small repeating earthquakes to clarify inter-plate coupling of subducting plates over a large area of the Japanese Islands. As a result, many sequences are detected at the Philippine Sea plate subducting from the Ryukyu trench and Pacific plate subducting from the Kuril-Japan trench. The average slip-rates and standard deviations estimated from the sequences show substantial spatial changes of inter-plate coupling. The large deviations of slip-rates correspond to the occurrence of episodic slips such as after-slips following large earthquakes. Constant slip-rates approaching the relative plate motion indicate weak coupling areas. Slip deficits and sparse distributions of repeating groups suggest locked areas. In the Nankai trough, deep low-frequency earthquakes in the transition zone and burst-type repeating sequences within plates have not been located in the downdip direction of groups with slow slip-rates. This suggests that the space-time characteristics of inter-plate coupling affected these seismic events.

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