Upper plate deformation measured by GPS in the Coquimbo Gap, Chile

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Jun 2009

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2009pepi..175...86v&link_type=abstract

Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors, Volume 175, Issue 1-2, p. 86-95.

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Since the Mw = 7.3 Punitaqui earthquake in 1997, the area between 30°S and 32°S (Coquimbo-Illapel section) of the Chilean subduction has been the locus of a decennial seismic swarm. A dense network of 30+ benchmarks have been installed in this area and surveyed six times with high precision GPS over the last 3 years. Surface deformation here is compatible with elastic loading due to partial locking on the subduction interface at depth. Here we show that in this area, only 40-45% of the total convergence rate between Nazca and South America plates gives way to accumulation of elastic deformation in the upper plate, the remaining 60-55% being dissipated by free or aseismic slip, the cumulative slip due to the seismic swarm explaining no more than 1/3rd to 1/4th of it. We also find that the accumulation decreases northward, to reach almost zero around 30°S (La Serena - Tongoy). Whether this is a steady state or only a transient pattern (a steady decrease of coupling) is not clear since our measurements span only 3 years and since early measurements 10 years ago were sparse and differ only marginally from ours.

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