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SCIENCE
卷 324, 期 5926, 页码 502-506出版社
AMER ASSOC ADVANCEMENT SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1126/science.1167595
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- NSF [EAR-0636012]
- Tectonic Observatory [10015]
- Carnegie fellowship at the Department of Terrestrial Magnetism
Great earthquakes have repeatedly occurred on the plate interface in a few shallow-dipping subduction zones where the subducting and overriding plates are strongly locked. Silent earthquakes (or slow slip events) were recently discovered at the down-dip extension of the locked zone and interact with the earthquake cycle. Here, we show that locally observed converted SP arrivals and teleseismic underside reflections that sample the top of the subducting plate in southern Mexico reveal that the ultra-slow velocity layer (USL) varies spatially (3 to 5 kilometers, with an S-wave velocity of similar to 2.0 to 2.7 kilometers per second). Most slow slip patches coincide with the presence of the USL, and they are bounded by the absence of the USL. The extent of the USL delineates the zone of transitional frictional behavior.
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