A high-resolution, time-variable afterslip model for the 2010 Maule Mw = 8.8, Chile megathrust earthquake

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• 作者：Jonathan Bedford ; Marcos Moreno ; Juan Carlos Baez ; Dietrich Lange ; Frederik Tilmann ; Matthias Rosenau ; Oliver Heidbach ; Onno Oncken ; Mitja Bartsch ; Andreas Rietbrock ; Andr茅s Tassara ; Michael Bevis ; Christophe Vigny
• 关键词：subduction ; post-seismic ; megathrust ; afterslip ; GPS ; Maule
• 刊名：Earth and Planetary Science Letters
• 出版年：1 December, 2013
• 年：2013
• 卷：383
• 期：Complete
• 页码：26-36
• 全文大小：5078 K

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The excellent spatial coverage of continuous GPS stations in the region affected by the Maule Mw = 8.8 2010 earthquake, combined with the proximity of the coast to the seismogenic zone, allows us to model megathrust afterslip on the plate interface with unprecedented detail. We invert post-seismic observations from continuous GPS sites to derive a time-variable model of the first 420 d of afterslip. We also invert co-seismic GPS displacements to create a new co-seismic slip model. The afterslip pattern appears to be transient and non-stationary, with the cumulative afterslip pattern being formed from afterslip pulses. Changes in static stress on the plate interface from the co- and post-seismic slip cannot solely explain the aftershock patterns, suggesting that another process - perhaps fluid related - is controlling the lower magnitude aftershocks. We use aftershock data to quantify the seismic coupling distribution during the post-seismic phase. Comparison of the post-seismic behaviour to interseismic locking suggests that highly locked regions do not necessarily behave as rate-weakening in the post-seismic period. By comparing the inter-seismic locking, co-seismic slip, afterslip, and aftershocks we attempt to classify the heterogeneous frictional behaviour of the plate interface.