High precision earthquake locations reveal seismogenic structure beneath Mammoth Mountain, California

Details High precision earthquake locations reveal seismogenic structure beneath Mammoth Mountain, California High precision earthquake locations reveal seismogenic structure beneath Mammoth Mountain, California

Dec 2003

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2003georl..30xsde4p&link_type=abstract

Geophysical Research Letters, Volume 30, Issue 24, pp. SDE 4-1, CiteID 2247, DOI 10.1029/2003GL018334

Physics

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Seismology: Earthquake Dynamics And Mechanics, Seismology: Seismicity And Seismotectonics, Seismology: Volcano Seismology (8419), Seismology: General Or Miscellaneous, Volcanology: General Or Miscellaneous

Scientific paper

In 1989, an unusual earthquake swarm occurred beneath Mammoth Mountain that was probably associated with magmatic intrusion. To improve our understanding of this swarm, we relocated Mammoth Mountain earthquakes using a double difference algorithm. Relocated hypocenters reveal that most earthquakes occurred on two structures, a near-vertical plane at 7-9 km depth that has been interpreted as an intruding dike, and a circular ring-like structure at ~5.5 km depth, above the northern end of the inferred dike. Earthquakes on this newly discovered ring structure form a conical section that dips outward away from the aseismic interior. Fault-plane solutions indicate that in 1989 the seismicity ring was slipping as a ring-normal fault as the center of the mountain rose with respect to the surrounding crust. Seismicity migrated around the ring, away from the underlying dike at a rate of ~0.4 km/month, suggesting that fluid movement triggered seismicity on the ring fault.

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