Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astronomy
Scientific paper
Jul 2010
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2010geoji.182..329h&link_type=abstract
Geophysical Journal International, Volume 182, Issue 1, pp. 329-342.
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astronomy
Permeability And Porosity, Friction, Fault Zone Rheology, Earthquake Source Observations
Scientific paper
We performed inversions of earthquake focal mechanisms in central Taiwan to investigate the heterogeneity of the stress field and fault strength, and temporal variations of stress parameters, friction and pore pressure associated with the 1999 Chi-Chi earthquake. We divided the focal mechanism data into two groups: before and after the Chi-Chi earthquake, and analysed them separately. With the assumption of a uniform stress field, the friction coefficient is mostly within a range of 0.2-0.4 in central Taiwan, which is lower than the commonly quoted laboratory result, 0.6-0.85. The low friction coefficient is also inferred by the rotation of principal stress axes after the Chi-Chi earthquake. By contrast, if we assume that the friction is constant and failures occur on optimally oriented planes, we find that the resulting stress orientations must be spatially variable. However, a large dispersion of stress orientations is not seen in borehole breakouts and fault slip data, implying a constant friction model might be ruled out. Our analysis suggests that either the distribution of the coefficient of friction or pore pressure changed during the 1999 Chi-Chi earthquake. We infer that the pore pressure probably rose in the Chi-Chi rupture area and northern Longitudinal Valley and dropped in the areas south of the coseismic rupture area after the main shock.
Chang Chien-Hsin
Hsu Ya-Ju
Kanamori Hiroo
Rivera Luis
Wu Yih-Min
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