Source parameters of small earthquakes recorded at 2.5 km depth, Cajon Pass, southern California - Implications for earthquake scaling

Details Source parameters of small earthquakes recorded at 2.5 km depth, Cajon Pass, southern California - Implications for earthquake scaling Source parameters of small earthquakes recorded at 2.5 km depth, Cajon Pass, southern California - Implications for earthquake scaling

Jul 1993

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1993georl..20.1511a&link_type=abstract

Geophysical Research Letters (ISSN 0094-8276), vol. 20, no. 14, p. 1511-1514.

Physics

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Data Recording, Earth Crust, Earthquakes, Seismic Waves, California, Parameter Identification, Scaling

Scientific paper

A 2.5-km deep triaxial seismometer at Cajon Pass in southern California has recorded several hundred earthquakes less than M(L)4.0 occurring within the San Andreas fault system. At 2.5-km seismic background noise is below amplifier sensitivity, and the 2-250 Hz spectral range of recorded seismic motion is wider and higher than that of most natural event catalogs. Compared with downhole recorded motion, seismic amplitudes at the surface are amplified below 10 Hz and severely attenuated above 30 Hz. We estimate that Q(S) is at least 1000 for wave motion at 2.5 km and below and Q(P) is over 2000. The range of source dimensions in the downhole recorded catalog is about 10 m to about 70 m (M(L) about -2.0, M(0) about 10 exp 8 Nm to M(L) about 2.7, M(0) about 10 exp 13 Nm). The plot of log(source-radius) vs. log(moment) has a straight line trend compatible with earthquake scaling at constant stress drop; inferred stress drops are scattered between 1 and 500 bars. There is no evidence in the catalog for the proposed minimum source dimension at about 100 m. When the Cajon Pass borehole catalog, containing some of the smallest recorded natural earthquakes, is combined with 800 larger events from previous studies, the moment-radius trend suggests that natural earthquakes are self-similar over a magnitude range M about -2 to about 8. We suggest that inferences of minimum source dimension are more likely due to bias in band-limited individual catalogs than to properties of the seismic crust.

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