Ryo Okuwaki, Stephen P. Hicks, Timothy J. Craig, Wenyuan Fan, Saskia Goes, Tim J. Wright, Yuji Yagi. (2021). Illuminating a Contorted Slab With a Complex Intraslab Rupture Evolution During the 2021 Mw 7.3 East Cape, New Zealand Earthquake (Vol. 48).
Abstract: The state-of-stress within subducting oceanic plates controls rupture processes of deep intraslab earthquakes. However, little is known about how the large-scale plate geometry and the stress regime relate to the physical nature of the deep intraslab earthquakes. Here we find, by using globally and locally observed seismic records, that the moment magnitude 7.3 2021 East Cape, New Zealand earthquake was driven by a combination of shallow trench-normal extension and unexpectedly, deep trench-parallel compression. We find multiple rupture episodes comprising a mixture of reverse, strike-slip, and normal faulting. Reverse faulting due to the trench-parallel compression is unexpected given the apparent subduction direction, so we require a differential buoyancy-driven stress rotation, which contorts the slab near the edge of the Hikurangi plateau. Our finding highlights that buoyant features in subducting plates may cause diverse rupture behavior of intraslab earthquakes due to the resulting heterogeneous stress state within slabs.
Keywords: earthquake rupture finite-fault inversion Hikurangi intraslab earthquakes slab geometry source imaging
Programme: 133
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Afsaneh Mohammadzaheri, Karin Sigloch, Kasra Hosseini, Mitchell G. Mihalynuk. (2021). Subducted Lithosphere Under South America From Multifrequency P Wave Tomography (Vol. 126).
Keywords: Andes intra-arc intra-oceanic subduction seismic tomography South America structure of the mantel
Programme: 133
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L A Ermert, K Sager, T Nissen-Meyer, A Fichtner. (2021). Multifrequency inversion of global ambient seismic sources (Vol. 225).
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Jun Xie, Risheng Chu, Sidao Ni. (2021). Evaluating Global Tomography Models With Antipodal Ambient Noise Cross-Correlation Functions (Vol. 126).
Keywords: ambient noise cross-correlation functions antipodal surface waves mantle heterogeneity tomography model evaluation
Programme: 133
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A. Baranov, R. Tenzer, A. Morelli. (2021). Updated Antarctic crustal model (Vol. 89).
Keywords: Antarctica Crustal structure Gondwana Sediments
Programme: 133
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Lucia Gualtieri, Etienne Bachmann, Frederik J Simons, Jeroen Tromp. (2021). Generation of secondary microseism Love waves: effects of bathymetry, 3-D structure and source seasonality (Vol. 226).
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Robert E. Anthony, Adam T. Ringler, Michael DuVernois, Kent R. Anderson, David C. Wilson. (2021). Six Decades of Seismology at South Pole, Antarctica: Current Limitations and Future Opportunities to Facilitate New Geophysical Observations (Vol. 92).
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