Guided waves at subduction zones: dependencies on slab geometry, receiver locations and earthquake sources

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Nov 2006

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2006geoji.167..693m&link_type=abstract

Geophysical Journal International, Volume 167, Issue 2, pp. 693-704.

Astronomy and Astrophysics

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Finite Difference Method, Guided Waves, Low-Velocity Layer, Oceanic Crust, Subduction Zone

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We investigate the geometry of deep subduction zone waveguides (depth >100 km). The wavefield characteristics for up-dip profiles are described and compared with data recorded at the Chile-Peru subduction zone. Observed distorted P onsets at stations in northern Chile near 21°S can be matched by 2-D finite difference simulations of a thin low-velocity layer (LVL) atop the slab in an IASP91 velocity model. The replacement of the LVL by simple random velocity undulations in the slab in the same model cannot explain the observations.
Varying slab geometries are investigated and the distribution of guided wave onsets originating in deep waveguides is predicted relative to the slab surface. Further, double couple source position and orientation is explored and found to be closely limited by the guided wave observations. Sources situated above the layer and at distances more than 2 layer widths below the subducted Moho are not suitable. For the remaining favourable source locations, a strong link between pulse shapes and fault plane dip angle is evident.
We conclude that up-dip guided wave observations at subduction zones follow a simple pattern given by slab geometry and modified by source position. The resulting onsets are shaped by layer thickness and velocity contrast and further influenced by the shape of the slab surface.

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