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Cascading rupture of patches of high seismic energy release controls the growth process of episodic tremor and slip events
Earth, Planets and Space ( IF 3.362 ) Pub Date : 2021-03-01 , DOI: 10.1186/s40623-021-01384-6
Keita Nakamoto , Yoshihiro Hiramatsu , Takahiko Uchide , Kazutoshi Imanishi

Slip phenomena on plate interfaces reflect the heterogeneous physical properties of the slip plane and, thus, exhibit a wide variety of slip velocities and rupture propagation behaviors. Recent findings on slow earthquakes reveal similarities and differences between slow and regular earthquakes. Episodic tremor and slip (ETS) events, a type of slow earthquake widely observed in subduction zones, likewise show diverse activity. We investigated the growth of 17 ETS events beneath the Kii Peninsula in the Nankai subduction zone, Japan. Analyses of waveform data recorded by a seismic array enabled us to locate tremor hypocenters and estimate the migration patterns and spatial distribution of the energy release of tremor events. Here, we describe three major features in the growth of ETS events. First, independent of their start point and migration pattern, ETS events exhibit patches of high seismic energy release on the up-dip part of the ETS zone, suggesting that the location of these patches is controlled by inherent physical or frictional properties of the plate interface. Second, ETS events usually start outside the high-energy patches, and their final extent depends on whether the patches participate in the rupture. Third, we recognize no size dependence in the initiation phase of ETS events of different sizes with comparable start points. These features demonstrate that the cascading rupture of high-energy patches governs the growth of ETS events, just as the cascading rupture of asperities governs the growth of regular earthquakes.



中文翻译:

高地震能释放斑块的级联破裂控制了突发性震颤和滑动事件的生长过程

板界面上的滑移现象反映了滑移面的异质物理特性,因此表现出各种各样的滑移速度和破裂传播行为。关于慢地震的最新发现揭示了慢地震与常规地震之间的异同。偶发性震颤和滑移(ETS)事件是俯冲带中广泛观察到的一种缓慢地震,同样表现出多种活动。我们调查了日本南海俯冲带基伊半岛下方17个ETS事件的增长。对地震阵列记录的波形数据的分析使我们能够定位震颤震源,并估算震颤事件能量释放的迁移模式和空间分布。在这里,我们描述了ETS事件增长的三个主要特征。第一的,与其起点和迁移模式无关,ETS事件在ETS区域的上倾部分显示出高地震能量释放的斑块,表明这些斑块的位置受板界面固有的物理或摩擦特性控制。其次,ETS事件通常始于高能斑块之外,其最终程度取决于斑块是否参与破裂。第三,我们认识到在具有可比较起点的不同规模的ETS事件的启动阶段中,没有大小依赖性。这些特征表明,高能斑块的级联破裂决定了ETS事件的增长,就像粗糙的级联破裂决定了常规地震的增长一样。这表明这些斑块的位置是由板界面固有的物理或摩擦特性控制的。其次,ETS事件通常始于高能斑块之外,其最终程度取决于斑块是否参与破裂。第三,我们认识到在具有可比较起点的不同规模的ETS事件的启动阶段中,没有大小依赖性。这些特征表明,高能斑块的级联破裂决定了ETS事件的增长,就像粗糙的级联破裂决定了常规地震的增长一样。这表明这些斑块的位置是由板界面固有的物理或摩擦特性控制的。其次,ETS事件通常始于高能斑块之外,其最终程度取决于斑块是否参与破裂。第三,我们认识到在具有可比较起点的不同规模的ETS事件的启动阶段中,没有大小依赖性。这些特征表明,高能斑块的级联破裂决定了ETS事件的增长,就像粗糙的级联破裂决定了常规地震的增长一样。其最终程度取决于斑块是否参与破裂。第三,我们认识到在具有可比较起点的不同规模的ETS事件的启动阶段中,没有大小依赖性。这些特征表明,高能斑块的级联破裂决定了ETS事件的增长,就像粗糙的级联破裂决定了常规地震的增长一样。其最终程度取决于斑块是否参与破裂。第三,我们认识到在具有可比较起点的不同规模的ETS事件的启动阶段中,没有大小依赖性。这些特征表明,高能斑块的级联破裂决定了ETS事件的增长,就像粗糙的级联破裂决定了常规地震的增长一样。

更新日期:2021-03-01
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