Title
Synthetic Source Inversion Tests with the Full Complexity of Earthquake Source Processes, Including Both Supershear Rupture and Slip Reactivation
Date Issued
01 September 2017
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Swissnuclear
Publisher(s)
Birkhauser Verlag AG
Abstract
Recent studies in dynamic source modeling and kinematic source inversion show that earthquake rupture may contain greater complexity than we previously anticipated, including multiple slipping at a given point on a fault. Finite source inversion methods suffer from the nonuniqueness of solutions, and it may become more serious if we aim to resolve more complex rupture models. In this study, we perform synthetic inversion tests with dynamically generated complex rupture models, including both supershear rupture and slip reactivation, to understand the possibility of resolving complex rupture processes by inverting seismic waveform data. We adopt a linear source inversion method with multiple windows, allowing for slipping from the nucleation of rupture to the termination at all locations along a fault. We regularize the model space effectively in the Bayesian framework and perform multiple inversion tests by considering the effect of inaccurate Green’s functions and station distributions. We also perform a spectral stability analysis. Our results show that it may be possible to resolve both a supershear rupture front and reactivated secondary slipping using the linear inversion method if those complex features are well separated from the main rupture and produce a fair amount of seismic energy. It may be desirable to assume the full complexity of an earthquake rupture when we first develop finite source models after a major event occurs and then assume a simple rupture model for stability if the estimated models do not show a clear pattern of complex rupture processes.
Start page
3393
End page
3418
Volume
174
Issue
9
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Geoquímica, Geofísica
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85029952677
Source
Pure and Applied Geophysics
ISSN of the container
00334553
Source funding
Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der Wissenschaftlichen Forschung
Sponsor(s)
We would like to thank the guest editor, Kojiro Irikura, and two anonymous reviewers for their thoughtful comments to improve the manuscript significantly. This study was supported by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF), SNF Grant 200021–140459, and also by the basic Research Project of Korea Institute of Geoscience and Mineral Resources (KIGAM), funded by the Ministry of Science, ICT & Future Planning (MSIP, Korea). The computational resources used in the study were supported by the Swiss National Supercomputing Center (CSCS), under the production project, ‘Development of a Database of Physics-Based Synthetic Earthquakes for Ground Motion Prediction,’ and also by the National Institute of Supercomputing and Network/Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information with supercomputing resources, including technical support.
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