A large normal-fault earthquake at the junction of the Tonga trench and the Louisville ridge

Details A large normal-fault earthquake at the junction of the Tonga trench and the Louisville ridge A large normal-fault earthquake at the junction of the Tonga trench and the Louisville ridge

Aug 1982

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1982pepi...29..161e&link_type=abstract

Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors, vol. 29, Aug. 1982, p. 161-172. U.S. Geological Survey

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Earthquakes, Geological Faults, Pacific Ocean, Plates (Tectonics), Ocean Bottom, Seismology

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Long-period vertical-component Rayleigh waves are inverted in order to determine the source mechanism of the October 10, 1977 earthquake that occurred in the oceanic plate at the junction of the Tonga-Kermadec trench systems with the aseismic Louisville ridge. The cause was predominantly normal faulting on a plane striking roughly parallel to the trench, with a seismic moment of 1.7 x 10 to the 27th dyn cm. A focal depth of 20 km is determined by waveform modeling, but the actual rupture may have extended to 30 or 40 km. Two sources separated by 16 s comprised the event, which experienced an inferred rupture velocity of 3.5 km/sec. The interpretation that the earthquake was caused by gravitational pull due to the sinking slab implies that the Louisville ridge causes some degree of local decoupling between the plates. This event may be associated with the breakup of the Osbourn seamount. Alternatively, the earthquake may have resulted from tensional plate bending stress, as implied by its relatively shallow depth.

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