CHARACTERISTICS OF WELL-DETERMINED NON-DOUBLE-COUPLE EARTHQUAKES IN THE HARVARD CMT CATALOG

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作者
FROHLICH, C
机构
[1] Institue for Geophysics, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78759
基金
美国国家科学基金会;
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10.1016/0031-9201(95)03031-Q
中图分类号
P3 [地球物理学]; P59 [地球化学];
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0708 ; 070902 ;
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This paper evaluates earthquakes in the Harvard centroid moment tenser (CMT) catalog which possess well-determined, deviatoric non-double-couple mechanisms, i.e, mechanisms with significantly large compensated linear vector dipole (CLVD) components. For a CMT M, we measure the strength of the non-double-couple component with the statistic Gamma(norm) = 2.6det[M]/parallel to M parallel to(3), which is 0.0 for a pure double couple and +/-1.0 for a pure CLVD. For each CMT, we measure whether Gamma(norm) is well determined by allowing individual elements of M to vary within their range of uncertainties as reported in the Harvard catalog, then determining the range of variation of \Gamma(norm)\ as M varies. The most well-determined 11% of the catalog has a range for \Gamma(norm)\ of 0.2 or less; of these earthquakes, about one-quarter have predominantly CLVD mechanisms with \Gamma(norm)\ of 0.4 or greater-these 283 mechanisms make up the principal data for this study. These CLVD earthquakes occur commonly in almost all tectonic environments - along mid-ocean ridges and transforms, in shallow subduction zones, within Wadati-Benioff zones, and in the interiors of plates in both oceanic and continental regions. Along ridge-transforms, the majority have horizontal T axes; in shallow subduction zones the majority have horizontal P axes which are approximately perpendicular to the trench. These observations are consistent with a schematic model which explains CLVD mechanisms as the sum of two or more elementary, double-couple subevents with orientation fixed by the type and geometry of the plate boundary. Within ridge-transforms, subduction zones, and Wadati-Benioff zones where the plate motion, lithospheric structure, etc., is sufficiently uniform, about 75% of the CLVD mechanisms conform to this model.
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