A resampling approach to test stress-field uniformity from fault data

Details A resampling approach to test stress-field uniformity from fault data A resampling approach to test stress-field uniformity from fault data

Mar 2000

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Geophysical Journal International, Volume 140, Issue 3, pp. 535-542.

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

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Fault Plane Solutions, Inversion, Statistical Methods, Stress Distribution

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Several methods have been proposed to constrain the stress field from fault plane orientations and slip directions within a crustal volume characterized by brittle deformation. All the methods are based on the assumption that the stress field is uniform in the volume considered. If this hypothesis is not checked in advance, however, the methodology may lead to misleading conclusions. In this work, a procedure is defined to check stress-field uniformity by a statistical analysis of the available fault data. Since, in most cases, the statistical features of the uncertainties that affect such data are not well known, a distribution-free approach is proposed. It is based on a simple search algorithm, devoted to selecting stress configurations compatible with available data, combined with a bootstrap resampling approach. The test results are more conservative than the ones so far proposed in the literature. When the test allows stress heterogeneities to be safely excluded, approximate confidence intervals for the principal stress directions can be obtained; otherwise, the level of stress heterogeneity present in the volume under study can be assessed. An application of the proposed procedure to a sample of fault data deduced from seismological data is presented.

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