Physics
Scientific paper
Mar 2007
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2007georl..3406303f&link_type=abstract
Geophysical Research Letters, Volume 34, Issue 6, CiteID L06303
Physics
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Geodesy And Gravity: Seismic Cycle Related Deformations (6924, 7209, 7223, 7230), Geodesy And Gravity: Space Geodetic Surveys, Seismology: Subduction Zones (1207, 1219, 1240)
Scientific paper
GPS velocities from the Alaska Peninsula are modeled to determine the extent of locking on the Alaska-Aleutian subduction interface. The observations, which span from the Semidi Islands to Sanak Island, encompass the 1938, M w 8.3, rupture zone and the transition into the Shumagin gap. Model parameters are optimized using a simulated annealing method. Coupling variation along strike of the plate interface show a nearly fully locked (90%) subduction zone at the Semidi Islands, decreasing to about 30% locked at the Shumagin Islands, and freely slipping to the west of the Shumagins. Independent rupture of the Shumagin segment could produce repeated M w 7.6 earthquakes, unless a significant fraction of the slip on the interface occurs as afterslip following large earthquakes. Southwest directed velocities at most of the sites may be attributed to clockwise rotation of a Bering block.
Fournier Thomas J.
Freymueller Jeffrey T.
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