Resolving the Detailed Spatiotemporal Slip Evolution of Deep Tremor in Western Japan

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  • Kazuaki Ohta
    Disaster Prevention Research Institute Kyoto University Kyoto Japan
  • Satoshi Ide
    School of Science University of Tokyo Tokyo Japan

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2017-12
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journal article
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  • http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/termsAndConditions#vor
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  • 10.1002/2017jb014494
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American Geophysical Union (AGU)

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<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title><jats:p>We study the detailed spatiotemporal behavior of deep tremor in western Japan through the development and application of a new slip inversion method. Although many studies now recognize tremor as shear slip along the plate interface manifested in low‐frequency earthquake (LFE) swarms, a conventional slip inversion analysis is not available for tremor due to insufficient knowledge of source locations and Green's functions. Here we introduce synthetic template waveforms, which are typical tremor waveforms obtained by stacking LFE seismograms at arranged points along the plate interface. Using these synthetic template waveforms as substitutes for Green's functions, we invert the continuous tremor waveforms using an iterative deconvolution approach with Bayesian constraints. We apply this method to two tremor burst episodes in western and central Shikoku, Japan. The estimated slip distribution from a 12 day tremor burst episode in western Shikoku is heterogeneous, with several patchy areas of slip along the plate interface where rapid moment releases with durations of <100 s regularly occur. We attribute these heterogeneous spatiotemporal slip patterns to heterogeneous material properties along the plate interface. For central Shikoku, where we focus on a tremor burst episode that occurred coincidentally with a very low frequency earthquake (VLF), we observe that the source size of the VLF is much larger than that estimated from tremor activity in western Shikoku. These differences in the size of the slip region may dictate the visibility of VLF signals in observed seismograms, which has implications for the mechanics of slow earthquakes and subduction zone processes.</jats:p>

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