Spatial variation in shear wave splitting of the upper crust in the zone of inland high strain rate, central Japan

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Sep 2010

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2010ep%26s...62..675h&link_type=abstract

Earth, Planets and Space, Volume 62, Issue 9, p. 675-684.

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We investigate a detailed spatial variation in shear wave splitting in the zone of inland high strain rate, called the Niigata-Kobe Tectonic Zone (NKTZ), central Japan. Most observations show stress induced anisotropy, that is, the orientation of the faster polarized shear wave is parallel to the axis of the maximum horizontal compressional strain rate estimated from GPS data. Others show structure induced anisotropy, that is, the orientation is parallel to the strike of active faults. For the stress induced anisotropy, time delays normalized by the path length in the anisotropic upper crust is proportional to the differential strain rate. We estimate a spatial variation in stressing rate of the upper crust beneath the high strain rate zone based on a response of the normalized time delay to a step-wise stress change caused by a moderate-sized earthquake. The variation in the stressing rate of 3 kPa/year estimated from shear wave splitting is coincident with that from GPS data. We conclude, together with other seismological features in the NKTZ reported previously, that the high strain rate in the NKTZ is attributed to the high deformation rate below the brittle-ductile transition zone in the crust.

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