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摘要
Earthquake source parameters are widely used for computing scaling laws. We estimated source parameters for earthquakes in the Gulf of California, and the Mexican subduction zone through teleseismic fault slip inversion. The scaling relations herein can provide useful information for studies focused on source characteristics and ground motions in Mexico. We derived source scaling relations to estimate fault dimensions, combined asperity area, ratio of combined asperity area to rupture area, maximum displacement, mean displacement, duration and seismic energy of subduction interplate earthquakes based on their moment magnitude. We do not developed scaling relationships for strike-slip events in the Gulf of California due to the reduced number of data, but compare source parameters. We analyzed differences in source parameters between the two types of earthquakes. Scaling relations were fitted with orthogonal regression and we analyzed the difference between our subduction zone relationships and previous ones. We deteimined 21 finite-fault slip distributions for earthquakes in the magnitude range of 6.5 %26lt; M-w %26lt; 8.0. We do not include solutions obtained from other authors based on different inversion methods to construct scaling relationships in a consistent manner. Within this study, we characterized heterogeneous slip models by determining source parameters on the asperities and on the background area, such as number of asperities, combined asperity area, stress drop on asperities, aspect ratio, strain and average stress drop. We found that the area of the asperities represented about 22 and 24 per cent of the total area for strike-slip, and reverse events respectively with two different criteria based on average slip and maximum displacement. Sensitivity tests were carried out to estimate the variability of slip patterns and source parameters by changing fault dimensions, subfault size and the number of stations. We observed robust slip solutions and reliable source parameter estimations resulting in robust scaling relationships. Our data showed that stress drop in subduction zones is smaller than stress drop on continental and oceanic transform faults. Our results support the observation of mechanism dependence of radiated energy. We find that apparent stress of strike-slip is larger than the apparent stress of reverse events.
- 出版日期2013-6
