Journal
EARTH PLANETS AND SPACE
Volume 64, Issue 7, Pages E13-E16Publisher
SPRINGER HEIDELBERG
DOI: 10.5047/eps.2012.05.006
Keywords
Waveform inversion; uncertainty of Green's function; 12 May; 2008; Wenchuan earthquake; seismic source process
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- MEXT [24540450]
- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [24540450] Funding Source: KAKEN
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We have estimated the spatio-temporal slip distribution of the 12 May, 2008, Wenchuan earthquake from teleseismic P-wave data. Teleseismic body wave observations are useful geophysical observations for estimating the overall seismic source process immediately after a great earthquake. However, it is difficult to constrain the slip vectors of later sub-events during a large earthquake such as the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake because the modeling error due to the Green's function uncertainty generally increases with time. In this study, we have applied a new waveform inversion method that incorporates the uncertainty of the Green's function, and we have assumed a simple fault plane model to evaluate our inversion scheme for a rapid analysis of the seismic source process. The results show that the slip history of the Wenchuan earthquake include six distinct sub-events. The derived source parameters were a seismic moment M-0 = 1.4x10(21) N m (M-w 8.0) and a source duration = 125 s. The total slip vector distribution and segmentations obtained in our study are consistent with results obtained from InSAR data. The manner of the rupture propagation suggests that the two major source faults, the Beichuan fault and the Pengguan fault, intersected in the deep part of the seismogenic zone.
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