期刊
EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS
卷 483, 期 -, 页码 105-113出版社
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2017.12.006
关键词
subduction; earthquake; outer-rise; triggering; aftershocks; finite-fault
资金
- French National Research Agency (ANR) EPOST project [ANR-14-CE03-0002]
- Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR) [ANR-14-CE03-0002] Funding Source: Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR)
For some megathrust earthquakes, the rupture extends to the solid Earth's surface, at the ocean floor. This unexpected behaviour holds strong implications for the tsunami potential of subduction zones and for the physical conditions governing earthquakes, but such ruptures occur in underwater areas which are hard to observe, even with current instrumentation and imaging techniques. Here, we evidence that aftershocks occurring ocean-ward from the trench are conditioned by near-surface rupture of the megathrust fault. Comparison to well constrained earthquake slip models further reveals that for each event the number of aftershocks is proportional to the amount of shallow slip, a link likely related to static stress transfer. Hence, the spatial distribution of these specific aftershock sequences could provide independent constrains on the coseismic shallow slip of future events. It also offers the prospect to be able to reassess the rupture of many large subduction earthquakes back to the beginning of the instrumental era. (C) 2017 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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